Heidi Hayes Jacobs Quotes

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

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

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

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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

To acquire behavior, the student must engage in behavior

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.

The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have a lot more significance to me.

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.

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

Educate, educate, educate!

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

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.