Quotes About Teaching Materials

#1. If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

John Henrik Clarke

#2. Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

Robert Reich

#3. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands
and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

Pablo Neruda

#5. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth

#6. It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

Howard Gardner

#7. We should consider ourselves lucky that the red light is so clearly visible.

Haruki Murakami

#8. You could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence ...

Garrett McCoy

#9. For me, Love is something very pure.

Michael Jackson

#10. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

Sam Wineburg

#11. Six days later, the president named a postmaster for New Salem, Illinois, a twenty-four-year-old lawyer who had lost a race for the state legislature. He was a Clay man, but the post was hardly major, and Abraham Lincoln was happy to accept the appointment.

Jon Meacham

#12. With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Danny Gregory

#14. He's usually the confident intellect, but every once in a while when he's around me, he turns into this clumsy fool. It makes me smile to think that I can make him as flustered as he seems to make me.

Kimberly Lauren