Beth Goldberg Quotes

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

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

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

The problem with education is school.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

Great Schools. Great Texas

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

It shouldn't matter what type of school a student attends, so long as the school is the right fit for that student.

It's time to start putting actually the students first and not anyone else.