Mae Jemison Quotes

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.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

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.

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

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

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

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

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

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

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.

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

I'm just not a natural teacher.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

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.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.