Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having i….

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is tha….

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer c….

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 ….

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empat….

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as ….

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, bo….

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person..

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engin….

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and wh….

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide..

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to ac….

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around..

My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' ….

Underconfidence breeds underachievement..

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student..

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the bi….