This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.

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 sit at the adult table for the first time...

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, but he hasn’t shown it. His teams have been ready-made.

Leo Strauss’s discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students – to force them to see things in a new way. i’ve known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it’s your perspective that counts – your ability to...

You can not teach art, it’s not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of...

When I took over as chair of the fashion program, I was horrified that only the faculty member was allowed to speak in a critique. I’m talking about perfectly nurturing teachers. But the rule was there would be no call of hands for students to contribute their feedback. It was embedded in the department’s culture....

If we spark a student’s passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o’the wisp, the Jack o’lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of...

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression ‘imitators.’ He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression ‘follower’ he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that ‘imitators’ is meant by it, that is not adherents of a...

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a...

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day.

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred...

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the...

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can’t, I teach. And write.

In a 1968 study of daily life in classrooms, Philip W. Jackson wrote that students spend as much as 50 percent of their time waiting for something to happen. They wait for teachers to pass out papers. They wait for slower students to get their questions answered. They wait for the lunch bell to ring....

She’s the first young person who began with us and went on to pursue her dream of teaching dance. And we are lucky enough to have her here for her first professional job.

Jesus’ simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Never compare one student’s test score to another’s. Always measure a child’s progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual–not to be more special than the kid sitting next to...

Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

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 more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

The teaching goes on

Parents, don’t invest in your child’s teaching; invest in your child’s learning.

You mean you live down here?’ Matilda asked.’I do’, Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away...

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned...

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 you can be taught!

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my...

The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.

Not our teaching. … Islam is not wrong, but the interpretations by our scholars can be wrong.

The lesson we are teaching citizens is somehow we don’t have to listen to the courts. This is disrespectful to Judge Hamilton, the judicial system and the Bill of Rights.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.