Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate and plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people, can be most engaged in.
His first public speech
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
At the end of the day, I'm certainly hopeful they can leave some time to focus on Tennessee history. But we understand the struggle when it comes to curriculum time and what you just physically don't have time for.
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.
People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.
I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
I love to teach - that's my role.
I look at films every day. I study. I coach.
To teach is to learn twice.
[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).
