Howard Nemerov Quotes

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.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

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.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.