Sue Johanson Quotes

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

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

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

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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

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

I'm just not a natural teacher.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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.

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.