Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“activity is not the same as engagement. In too many classrooms, teachers worry about having the students active rather than having the students thinking,…

— Daisy Christodoulou

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

— Alastair Arnott

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk…

— Craig Ferguson

Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between…

— Seymour Papert

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

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

— Dr. Brian Ogawa

“Whether a kid is sulking, pouting, whining, withdrawing, refusing to talk, crying, spitting, screaming, swearing, running out of the classroom, kicking, hitting, destroying property,…

— Ross W. Greene

“Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made them spontaneous…

— Anne Lamott

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

— Diogenes

“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they…

— Thomas W. Phelan

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

— Adam F. Goldberg

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

— Rudolf Steiner