Good Teaching Quotes

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Good teaching comes from good people.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do