Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
. . . one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others. " "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything. . . nor ought one to blame others.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend. . . The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers?. . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.
You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals. . . Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
Those things that hurt, instruct.