Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

• It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Meaningful, Teacher

• We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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