John Wooden Quotes

You haven't taught until they've learned.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

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

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

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

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

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.

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.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

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

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

What do they teach them at these schools?

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

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.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

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

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.