Christa McAuliffe Quotes

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent 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.

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot.

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

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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?'

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.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

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.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

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