“Good teachers are costly; bad teachers are costlier.” ~~ unknown
Submitted by Brian Fernandez.
Education Quotes
“Good teachers are costly; bad teachers are costlier.” ~~ unknown
Submitted by Brian Fernandez.
Filed Under: Education, Reader Submissions, Teaching
“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
Filed Under: Education, Soren Kierkegaard, Teaching, Wisdom
“I’m going to insist that we’ve got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.” ~~ Barack Obama
Filed Under: Achievement, Barack Obama, Education
“The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty — it is the effectiveness of the teacher.” ~~ Harry K. Wong
Filed Under: Achievement, Harry K. Wong, Learning, Teaching
“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.” ~~ John Jay Chapman
Filed Under: John Jay Chapman, Teaching
“A word as to the education of the heart. We don’t believe that this can be imparted through
books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.” ~~ Cesar Chavez
Filed Under: Cesar Chavez, Children, Teaching
“It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.” ~~ John Bradshaw
Filed Under: John Bradshaw, Learning, Optimism, Risk
“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” ~~ Dalai Lama
Filed Under: Dalai Lama, Tolerance