Martin Heidegger Quotes

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

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.

... 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.

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

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

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot 'handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

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

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

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

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.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

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.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.