Quotes About Instruction

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.