William James Quotes

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.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

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.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They need more study of outer space and DNA. They need more exciting teaching, more fair-minded encouragement, more career guidance, more mentorship. Both students and teachers need more feedback. It would help if we stopped protecting bad teachers - It's very difficult to get rid of even sexual perverts let alone just bad teachers.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

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

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Teaching is performance art.

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

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.