Quotes About Teaching

I am not a writer, a philosopher, or a great figure of intellectual life. I am a teacher. […] My role is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes that have been built up at a certain moment in history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people—that is the role of an intellectual.

If instructional expertise and cultural competence, or the ability to teach across difference, are essential to improving student achievement, then teachers are educational leaders with the greatest scope of influence

We educators have chosen to work with all students, taking responsibility to do our best with the materials and resources we have.

Teachers lead by taking actions that improve the conditions of learning for others.

That is how we pass our disease to our children, and that is how our parents, our teachers, our older siblings, the whole society of sick people infected us with that disease.

The adults can only teach us what they know; they cannot teach us what they don't know. What they know is what they learned in their whole lives; it's what they believed in their whole lives. You can be sure that your parents did the best they could for you at the time. If they didn't do better, it's because they didn't know any better.

Cuándo viviremos en el presente? Esto es lo que el ángel de la muerte nos enseña a hacer.

These people have will and desire too. But in *this* world a hundred codes and schools tell them not to *exercise* it -- to *restrain* desire, until desire turns into poison. And then to tell their children that *poison* is wholesome food.

Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and coming to understand broad historical and political forces.

Figura 8.3. Diálogo mentor/mentee (la kata de coaching) para enseñar la kata de mejora.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

Not all 'schooling' is 'education,' and not all 'education' is 'schooling'.

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.