Quotes About Engagement

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

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

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

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

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.