Teaching
Thursday 1 January 2009
Quotes
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."
"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job."
"A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
