Quotes About Methods Of Teaching

#1. It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

Albert Einstein

#2. More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Bertrand Russell

#3. Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

Albert Einstein

#4. New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

William Stanley Jevons

#6. Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

Derek Bok

#7. We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Pope Francis

#8. As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

Noam Chomsky

#9. The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

Idries Shah

#10. The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill

#11. I have been teaching you all the methods of meditation. You can choose any method that suits you. There are only one hundred and twelve methods; there is no possibility of adding more. It is exhaustive. All the methods possible have been explored. The simplest is witnessing.

Rajneesh

#12. I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

#13. Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

Edward De Bono

#14. Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

Adele Devine

#15. Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#16. So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

Elaine Pagels

#17. Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Deborah Ann Woll

#18. You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

William James

#19. Slavery and a controlling spirit are not God's methods of training and teaching people.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Key Largo ... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Claire Trevor

#21. I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

Nhat Hanh

#22. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.

Neel Burton

#23. Forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#24. It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

Albert Einstein

#25. Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Horace Mann

#26. The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

Jean Piaget

#27. Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

John Dewey

#28. My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.

Keith Johnstone

#29. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Noam Chomsky

#30. Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.

Joan Frances Turner

#31. Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Edsger Dijkstra