Eva Moskowitz Quotes

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

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

I'm just not a natural teacher.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

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

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

The stereograph is a superior kind of text, and a good teacher will not have so much trust in mere print.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.