Quotes About Teaching

nearing the end of a long teaching career, knowing I am in many ways ordinary yet still striving to count myself heroic.

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

Do a charity, donate your education to those who don't have it.

You can't learn from those who can't teach.

For money to be multiplied, knowledge has to be shared.

Because she was a natural teacher, she could not resist explaining to people better ways of doing things.

teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience. On the other hand, surprising individual cases have a powerful impact and are a more effective tool for teaching psychology because the incongruity must be resolved and embedded in a causal story.

To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbett and Borgida found that when they presented their students with a surprising statistical fact, the students managed to learn nothing at all. But when the students were surprised by individual cases—two nice people who had not helped—they immediately made the generalization and inferred that helping is more difficult than they had thought.

To remind parents of their flaws, let's define discipline this way: Discipline is the process in which bigger sinners attempt to convince littler sinners to mend their wicked ways.

beauty and pleasure are at the center of teaching. For the best teacher is the one who wants you to find meaning in the things that have given him pleasure, too, so that the appreciation of their beauty will outlive him. In this way—because it arises from an acceptance of the inevitability of death—good teaching is like good parenting.

Quels pédagogues nous étions, quand nous n'avions pas le souci de la pédagogie !

Que l'écolier, de temps à autre, rencontre un professeur dont l'enthousiasme semble considérer les mathématiques en elles-mêmes, qui les enseigne comme un des Beaux-Arts, qui les fait aimer par la vertu de sa propre vitalité, grâce à qui l'effort devienne un plaisir, cela tient au hasard de la rencontre, pas au génie de l'Institution. (p.89)

În orice caz, da, frica a fost pur È™i simplu problema mare a perioadei mele de È™colaritate: z?vorul ei. De aceea, urgenÈ›a mea, când am devenit profesor, a fost s? îngrijesc frica celor mai slabi dintre elevii mei pentru a ace z?vorul s? se deschid?, pentru ca informaÈ›ia s? aib? È™ansa s? circule

Il mal di grammatica si cura con la grammatica, gli errori di ortografia con l'esercizio dell'ortografia, la paura di leggere con la lettura, quella di non capire con l'immersione nel testo, e l'abitudine a non riflettere con il pacato sostegno di una ragione strettamente limitata all'oggetto che ci riguarda, qui e ora, in questa classe, durante quest'ora di lezione, fintanto che ci siamo.

Jak skvÄ›lí jsme bývali pedagogové, když jsme se o pedagogiku pranic nestarali!

Insegnare è proprio questo: ricominciare fino a scomparire come professori. Se non riusciamo a collocare i nostri studenti nell'indicativo presente della nostra lezione, se il nostro sapere e il piacere di servirsene non attecchiscono su quei ragazzini e quelle ragazzine, nel senso botanico del termine, la loro esistenza vacillerà sopra vuoti infiniti.

Che l'allievo di tanto in tanto incontri un professore pieno di entusiasmo che sembra considerare la matematica per se stessa, e la insegna come una delle Belle Arti e la fa amare in virtù della sua personale vitalità, e grazie al quale lo sforzo diventa un piacere, questo dipende dalla casualità dell'incontro, non dalla genialità dell'Istituzione.

La première qualité d'un professeur, c'est le sommeil. Le bon professeur est celui qui se couche tôt

Elle les élevait en traçant dans l'espace des lignes invisibles qu'ils respectaient. Des enfants funambules.

It is a truism that no profession welcomes the end of the work week with more anticipation than teachers.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

Denn, wie einer von Daniels Lehrern zu sagen pflegte: "Die ZEit an sich wird erst durch Akte wahrer Menschlichkeit erschaffen.

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