Malcolm Forbes Quotes

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

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

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

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

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Professors gravitate to the bright, well-prepared students. They are easier to teach, and they appear to profit most from instruction, which may simply mean they are most like the professors. But in the increasing pluralism and decreasing professionalism of colleges and universities in the next decades, the master teacher is likely to be the one who can provide context for many kinds of students.

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

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

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

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.