Howard Crosby Quotes

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

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

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

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

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.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

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

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

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

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

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

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?'

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.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

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 mere imparting of information is not education.