Teaching Quotes

The real driver of creativity is an appetite for discovery and a passion for the work itself. When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done. Their mastery of them grows as their creative ambitions expand. You'll find evidence of this process in great teaching in every discipline from football to chemistry.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticise me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

One goal of every faculty meeting is to make sure teachers are more excited about teaching tomorrow than they were today.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

And have an education system that trusts both teachers and parents, because they're both experts in what kids need.

It is ineffective and unfair for the school to treat all children the same... In order to really treat children equally, one has to treat them differently.

Relationships. Probably the most important aspect of not only outstanding teaching, or teaching in general, but life. Without good relationships with the children we teach, or the staff we work with, everything can very quickly go pear-shaped. Never underestimate the power of great relationships - they can make things so much easier!

If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with acceptance and friendship, they learn to find love in the world.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself

People learn from people they love. If your not talking about the individual relationship between the teacher and the student your not talking about that reality.

We are taught a set of skills important for our growth and survival as people: communication, arithmetic, wellness, and others. But no one teaches us how to perceive the world. To delight someone is to give a small lesson in how to see the world as something good.

Better build schoolrooms for ‘the boy’,
Than cells and gibbets for ‘the man’.

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Today is yesterday's pupil.