Pope Francis Quotes

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.