Ben Goldacre Quotes

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.

Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

Teachers know how to improve education.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

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

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.