Margaret Deland Quotes

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

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

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

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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.

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.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

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

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.