Good Teaching Quotes - Page 4

• Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Running, Educational, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Imagination

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Teaching, Confusing

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• To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Learning, Years

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• The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

  Deborah Meier

  Art, Teaching, Trying

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• But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Teaching, Water

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• I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

  Jesse Stuart

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Teacher, Teaching, Evil

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• I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

  Maxine

  Teaching, Secret

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• Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Teaching, Cutting

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• ...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Teaching, Circles

  Alice Walker (1987). “Meridian: a novel”, Isis Large Print Books

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

  Pat Conroy

  Teaching, Coaching, Good Coaching

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.103, Random House

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