Steve Jobs Quotes

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

You remember all your teachers.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

Instill respect for teachers.