Brian P. Cleary Quotes

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

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

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

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.

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.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

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

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

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

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

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

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

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

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.

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

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.