Pedagogical Skills Quotes

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

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot 'handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.