Teaching Quotes

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The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. — William Glasser
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first… — Stephen Brookfield
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. — Jerome Bruner
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them… — Jean Piaget
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields… — Albert Einstein
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom. — Hubert H. Humphrey
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold. — Howard Schultz
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. — Geoffrey Holder
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. — Tom Peters
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people — Susan B. Anthony
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids. — Deborah Meier
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may… — William Shakespeare
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. — Bill Moyers
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that… — Margaret J. Wheatley
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over… — Michael Fullan
Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls. — Unknown Author
It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box. — Unknown Author
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions — Diane Ravitch

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