William Glasser Quotes

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

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.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

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

I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

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

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

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

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

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

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.