Horace Mann Quotes

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

It is much better to want a teacher than to want the desire to learn.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

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

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

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

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

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.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

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.