Michael Gurian Quotes

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

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.

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

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

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 think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

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

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

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

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.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

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