The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When I was studying in London, I worked part-time as a waitress. I was teaching drama to kids. I did a lot… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social… — Patricia Sequeira Belvel Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily… — John A. Van de Walle Copy Share Image
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he's a winner. He doesn't need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I… — Mercy Celeste Copy Share Image
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in… — Lee S Shulman Copy Share Image
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people -… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs,… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song… — Khalil Copy Share Image
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
