Instructional Quality Quotes

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

New schools are being opened, and inspectors have been appointed to see that the instruction does not degenerate into vain and sterile examinations…there can be no doubt that French genius will produce works of distinction

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

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.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.