David Almond Quotes

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

To teach is to learn twice.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

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.

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.

Always educate yourself.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

Schooling is so important.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

A teacher should have a creative mind.