Barack Obama Quotes

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

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

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

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.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

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.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

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

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot 'handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.