Sly Stone Quotes

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

I love the classroom.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.