93 quotes found
“If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.”
“First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwright will tell you that when the actor sits down...”
“Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.”
“I try to learn better, do better. I have no idea how I got to be the one at the front of the classroom, the one who gets to be in charge of things. Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to...”
“The most insidous influence on the young is not violence, drugs, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and tolerance of the third rate.”
“You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.”
“The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.”
“I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help you to learn, or to make you learn, though I doubt either of you has to be made. I have very little...”
“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”
“I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldnt have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.”
“...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...”
“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher”
“If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where yo...”
“The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and el...”
“If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.”
“Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.”
“The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.”
“The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.”
“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”
“The petty worries of theschool room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.”
