Josh Cooke Quotes

To teach is to learn twice.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate and plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people, can be most engaged in.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

I love to teach; that's paramount.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

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

I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

What passes for a curriculum in today's schools is little else than a strategy of distraction... It is largely defined to keep students from knowing themselves and their environment in any realistic sense; which is to say, it does not allow inquiry into most of the critical problems that comprise the content of the world outside the school.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

Educate, educate, educate!

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.