Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
W. McKeachie
Thought flows in terms of stories - stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.
Frank Smith
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
Laurence Houseman once said, "A saint is one who makes goodness attractive." Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
John Trimble
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student'slife.
B.F. Skinner
The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.
Frank Smith
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "aparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there.
John Roueche
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.
Stephen Brookfield
The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
Stephen Brookfield
TEACHING: the earth doesn't move every time, but when it does, what a RUSH!
Cameron Beatty
A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings.
The Tao of Teaching
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser
In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.
K Patricia Cross
The Process of Teaching
Teaching = helping someone else learn.
L. Dee Fink
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
Gail Godwin
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key, 1911
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
"Chinese proverb"
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Confucius
Teaching is truth mediated by personality.
Phyllis Brooks
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
A. Bronson Alcott
Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning.
D.B. Gowin, 1981, Educating.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Art of Teaching
It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead.
George Savile
