Ashley Montagu Quotes

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.