Edmund Burke Quotes

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

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

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

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

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.