Pedagogical Approaches Quotes

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

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.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

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

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Methods are the masters of masters.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

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

The problem with education is school.