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?

The enemy of learning is knowing.

I don’t teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

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

The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher iswanted, and the second thing is to make the school officials believe you are just the person forthe position.

lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.

Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about ‘making students happy’ or allowing students to run...

I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching...

Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That’s probably why the two are so often...

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

So you’ll teach me?” Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. “I will make you as terrible as you desire.””I don’t want to be – ,” she started, but he held up his hand.”I know you’re very brave,”...

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

I noticed (the ball) was multicolored. One side was green and the other was red. When we got to the gathering I held that ball up and I said, ‘Before we begin, will you tell...

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After...

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of...