Howard Gardner Quotes

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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

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

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

I'm all for education.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

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.

As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level - but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.