Isaac Watts Quotes

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

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

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

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.

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

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

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

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

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

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

I love to teach; that's paramount.

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

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

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.