Rafael Benitez Quotes

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

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

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

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

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

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.

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

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.