Howard Gardner Quotes

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.