Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

Books are absent teachers.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.