Jean Houston Quotes

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

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.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

Going to talk to my little girl's teacher is a far cry from what people probably think I spend my time doing.

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.