Quotes on Great Teaching

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

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

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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.