Morley Safer Quotes

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.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

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

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

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.

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.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

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.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

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

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.