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When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

That’s what education should be,” I said, “the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ,...

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...

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words...

.do you talk or walk?..

Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

Change isn’t always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need...

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging...

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

TeachingOne hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that,...

Teachers, you don’t teach a subject, you teach a child.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

We’re doing less teaching and more complex stuff this year.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

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 job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time...

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...

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

She took a deep breath. “Let me begin again.” If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive...

… be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness…

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

What we want for others doesn’t work unless they want it for themselves.

An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don’t be your own worst enemy!

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

He’s like a big brother — I’ve never had one, … He’s been teaching me ever since I got here, even in the summer. I use him and take advantage as much as I can.

Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be often incomplete, indefinite, and insecure. The application of psychology to teaching is more...

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her ‘I don’t know how you do it,’ in order...

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

It’s why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?