Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
...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.
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