Educational Strategies Quotes

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

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

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia.

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

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

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .