John Dewey Quotes

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.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

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.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

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

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

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.

You haven't taught until they've learned.

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.

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

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

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

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

You have not taught until they have learned.