Deborah Meier

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

— Deborah Meier

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

— Deborah Meier

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

— Deborah Meier

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

— Deborah Meier

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only…

— Deborah Meier

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

— Deborah Meier

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

— Deborah Meier

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

— Deborah Meier

The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle.…

— Deborah Meier

Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It…

— Deborah Meier

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories,…

— Deborah Meier

If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You…

— Deborah Meier

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them.…

— Deborah Meier

I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I…

— Deborah Meier

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still…

— Deborah Meier