Eva Moskowitz Quotes

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

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

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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

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.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

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.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.