Parker Palmer Quotes

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

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

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

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

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.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

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

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

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.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

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.