Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

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.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

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

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

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

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.

One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.