Quotes on Effective Teacher

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.

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

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.

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

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

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.

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