Lawrence Kutner Quotes

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

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

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

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.

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.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

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

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

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.

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 found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators.

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.