Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

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

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.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

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

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

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

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

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

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

I wasn't a very good teacher.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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