Teaching Methodology Quotes

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

When I teach people, I marry them.

I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.