H. W. Brands Quotes

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

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.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

I would not, by any means, turn the school room into a motion picture theater, I would use the picture as a means to enlist the pupil’s interest.

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Having students was so inspiring.

I never say no to any event that is associated with education.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

We knew that bringing a level of entertainment value to the subject of history was the key to our success.

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

I use humor to educate.

Everyone likes to learn history. They just don't like to hear it from a professor looking at notes. They like to hear it like it's from their uncle, and that's how I explain history.