Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

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

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.