Personal experience Quote by Robin Padron

It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on.…

— John Taylor Gatto

“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds…

— Elizabeth Green

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work…

— Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent…

— Bruce Molsky

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my…

— Angela Duckworth

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

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

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers,…

— Andrew Shue

“Being good at mathematics is not necessarily the same as being fast at it. Taking the time to understand things properly is worthwhile.”

— Lara Alcock

We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more…

— Julian Treasure

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is…

— William Glasser

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science;…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss