Top 100 Quotes About Good Teaching
#1. Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#2. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.
Chip Brogden
#3. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#4. Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
Derek Bok
#5. planted seeds - and you're still reaping the harvest from them. Don't ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: Good teaching - and
Howard Hendricks
#6. Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Sydney J. Harris
#7. I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.
Maxine
#8. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
Eugene H. Peterson
#9. The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
Maria Montessori
#10. Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#11. Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
Parker J. Palmer
#12. Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
#13. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
Pat Conroy
#14. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.
R.J. Palacio
#15. While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
Nicholas Negroponte
#16. Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#17. Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
Jerome Bruner
#18. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#19. I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.
Douglas Wilson
#21. I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
Jesse Stuart
#22. It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.
Page Smith
#23. When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
George Polya
#24. The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Deborah Meier
#25. I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers ...
Alice Walker
#26. Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation?
Thomas Merton
#27. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#28. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.
John Dewey
#29. I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching ... I am a conundrum!
Holly Golightly
#30. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Yann Martel
#31. It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)
John Divola
#32. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.
L.M. Montgomery
#33. I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
Mike McCue
#35. I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.
Suzanne Somers
#36. By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
Brittany Howard
#37. The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.
Li Hongzhi
#38. I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
Gil Scott-Heron
#39. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor ... to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.
Robert M. Pirsig
#40. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.
Bel Kaufman
#41. A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.
Bryant McGill
#42. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#43. The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.
Nick Hornby
#44. I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
Augustine Of Hippo
#45. [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
Hal Borland
#46. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
Ujas Soni
#47. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.
Jeffrey Rosen
#48. This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
Origen
#49. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh
#50. In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
Robert Sternberg
#51. A good student learns from his teacher.
A great student learns to teach himself.
A.P. Sweet
#52. When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
Saul David
#53. Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
Mitch Albom
#54. My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.
Keith Johnstone
#55. The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.
Richard G. Scott
#56. Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.
Sakyong Mipham
#57. One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
Delarivier Manley
#58. Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.
Rory McIlroy
#59. This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#60. One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.
Tom Barbash
#61. We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
Noam Chomsky
#62. That profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.
Marcel Proust
#63. Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Simeon Denis Poisson
#64. Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he'd learned when he was five.
Kim Harrison
#65. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah Phillips
#66. I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
Aimee Bender
#67. These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
Gautama Buddha
#68. A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#69. I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best ... But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra
Ben Mitchell
#70. Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#71. I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Heber J. Grant
#72. So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. Let's not automatically turn to the next page in the textbook because it's the next page of the textbook, but because that page best serves the students we are teaching. And if the next page isn't as good as the one 57 pages later, let's go to the one 57 pages away without guilt.
Rick Wormeli
#74. I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
Mary Balogh
#75. Good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
Bel Kaufman
#76. The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.
Nhat Hanh
#77. I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue ... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.
Nic Pizzolatto
#78. You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.
Graham Greene
#79. I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.
Conor Oberst
#80. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#81. In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
#82. Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
#83. Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.
Sue Patton Thoele
#84. I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
Art Garfunkel
#85. I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.
Erin Gruwell
#86. Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
#87. When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.
Terry Gilliam
#88. Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,
teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.
Samuel Smiles
#89. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.
Robert Audi
#90. I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
Jesse Johnson
#91. The hardest thing about choosing good names is that it requires good descriptive skills and a shared cultural background. This is a teaching issue rather than a technical, business, or
management issue.
Robert C. Martin
#92. Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.
Shinichi Suzuki
#93. I don't know how good I'll be at teaching you. Seems I can't even teach you to call me Father.'
She smiled shyly. 'Chase and Father mean the same thing to me.
Terry Goodkind
#94. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!
Rex L. Forehand
#95. Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
but actually, the opposite is true.
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
answer your questions, but to question your answers.
Adyashanti
#96. We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
Sheena Easton
#97. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.
Gloria Steinem
#98. Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
S.I. Hayakawa
#99. Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.
Larisa Kuznetsova
#100. The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
Pat Conroy
