Top 49 Teacher Educational Quotes
#1. From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
Marcus Aurelius
#2. If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.
Joseph Barrell
#3. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
William Osler
#4. A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.
Tanya R. Liverman
#5. If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.
Randi Weingarten
#6. Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.
Paulo Freire
#7. From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.
William James
#8. There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
Nancy Kassebaum
#9. The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation.
Bryan Cranston
#11. Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
Joseph Barrell
#12. Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
John Dewey
#13. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.
John Goodlad
#14. Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.
James Heckman
#15. One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere.
Ray Anderson
#16. Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
John Amos Comenius
#17. The best student in the world can only be as good as their teacher
Joshua Teya
#18. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook
#19. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand ... what he learns and the way he understands it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#21. The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
William James
#22. Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
Ram Dass
#23. That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
Dagobert D. Runes
#25. Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
Bill Gates
#26. All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
Plato
#27. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
Daniel Goleman
#28. No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
William James
#29. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Andy Hargreaves
#30. In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Confucius
#32. We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
David Warlick
#33. The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
Dave Barry
#35. Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple ... a pedagogical paraplegic.
Howard G. Hendricks
#36. The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
William James
#37. Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
Thomas Paine
#38. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#39. If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.
Joseph Barrell
#40. To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
William James
#41. Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first ...
Tanya R. Liverman
#42. The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Anton Chekhov
#43. THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.
Wilbert Rideau
#45. Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.
Amit Ray
#46. Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
Janusz Korczak
#47. Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
Paulo Freire
#48. The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.
Joseph Barrell
#49. Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms ... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.' ... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
David Perkins
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