Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

What does a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same times, they are wanting your best interests at heart. They are teaching you, they are educating you, but at the same time, they will also have the ability to sanction you.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

When you teach, you learn.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Instill respect for teachers.