Andre Dubus III Quotes

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

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

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

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

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

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.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.