Student-Centered Teaching Quotes

In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

There is no single way to educate.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.