Teaching Technique Quotes

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

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

I think every partner in every situation is completely different and I think you have to adjust your teaching technique, your choreography and how you're going to approach the season in general.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.