Godfrey Reggio Quotes

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

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

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

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

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.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

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

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.