Teaching Skill Quotes

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I can legitimately say without being arrogant that there's probably a stretch where I was one of the better teachers of improv in the country.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

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.

A great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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.

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.