Morgan Spurlock Quotes

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

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.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

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

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.