Quotes on Good Teaching

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.

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

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

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.

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

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

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

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

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

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