Education Quote by James Crawford

“not focusing on language turns out to be an effective way to teach language in sheltered classrooms, especially the kind of academic language that…

— James Crawford

“A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught.”

— Benny Lewis

“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”

— Andrew Dalby

“As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you…

— Dr. Howard Hendricks

“Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.”

— Deepa Bhushan

“Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.”

— Gao Xingjian

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

— Don Meyer

“[..] too often we teach children concepts without context; we need to show them why learning is important”

— Sudhakar Ram

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.”

— Marilyn Johnson

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe