Brendan Myers Quotes

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.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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

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

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

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

Teachers know how to improve education.

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

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.

It was, like, two mobile games I released. They did pretty well, and after I made those two games, I was like, 'Man, I want to make another game, but I want to make this game for PlayStation and Xbox and PC.' I was like, 'You know what? Forget making the video game for Xbox, PlayStation and PC. How about I make my own console?'

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

With ZeniMax, they have a lot to be proud of. 'Fallout 3' is one of the favorite games of so many of our people. But they had zero overlap with the things we do. We do the best shooters in the world. It's a perfect hand and glove fit. We started talking about this before they rolled out 'Fallout 3'. We watch them roll it out worldwide.

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

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

We have people building models in Roblox for their Mayan ruins history project, or we've had people build tornadoes for their weather project. Roblox can be used in a lot of different ways.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

My aesthetic is, in short, 'cool substitute teacher.'