Carlos Castaneda Quotes

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

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.

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

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

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I hated school. Hated it.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

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

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

The problem with education is school.

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.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.