Ineffective Teaching Quotes

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.