Adapting Quote by Bruce Lee

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct…

— Bruce Lee

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large…

— William James

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he…

— John Dewey

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

— LouAnne Johnson

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it;…

— Lilian Katz

When pupils are fully engaged they are difficult to get out of the classroom rather than in.

— Alastair Arnott

Our teachers are incredibly hardworking and dedicated professionals. Having to deal with unruly pupils and disruption on a daily basis adds to their workload…

— Gavin Williamson

I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has…

— Alfred North Whitehead

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

— Daniel Pennac

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening…

— Angela Duckworth

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

— Horace Mann

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally…

— John Dewey