John Maeda Quotes

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

I was an elementary school teacher.

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

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.

I was going to become a teacher.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

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.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Instill respect for teachers.