Ross Barkley Quotes

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'

There is no single way to educate.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.

It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.

A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.