Quotes About Engagement

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.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.