Tony Wagner Quotes

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

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.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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

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

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

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

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 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.

We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Paying teachers more improves student achievement.

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

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

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

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.