Behavior Quote by Doug Lemov

Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.'…

— W. W. Sawyer

“...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...”

— Doug Lemov

“The problem with negative reinforcement is that you are essentially programming your student to fail. I wanted to program them to be successful—no matter…

— Brandon Webb

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

— B. F. Skinner

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

“One of the reasons teachers attach negative labels is that it removes them from taking responsability.”

— Paul Harris

“The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.”

— Evan Esar

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

— Sonam Wangchuk

The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority… The vulgar impression that parents have a legal…

— John Swett

“Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.”

— Dr. Brian Ogawa

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

— W. W. Sawyer

“Parents must model the kind of behavior they want to teach.”

— Jerry L. Wyckoff