Gary Cohn Quotes

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

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

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

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

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

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

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

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.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.