Quotes by Teaching A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant. Paul Halmos teachingchallengesteacher Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. Paul Hauck self-esteemteachingchildren 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. Paul Halmos teachingteacherknowledge If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students? Paul Lockhart datateachingteacher Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children. Paul Lockhart realteachingchildren The only dumb question is the question you don't ask. Paul MacCready dumbteachingeducation If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young. Paul Orfalea readingteachingschool Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. Paul Q. Hirst teachingmayteacher Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms. Paul Q. Hirst formdifferentteaching There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn. Paul Q. Hirst skillsteachingbridges One of my missions was to teach. Paul Prudhomme missionsteachteaching If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have crazy, fuzzy ideas about teaching, we will be likely to do crazy and fuzzy things in its name. Paul Q. Hirst crazyteachingbelieve Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites. Paul R. Ehrlich knowingteachinggiving I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I'd much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet. Paul R. Ehrlich teachingcountryschool Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. Paul Rodriguez teachingwarfunny All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes. Paul Rozin eyestrongteaching Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are. Paul Robeson teachingwantsong In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching. Paul Samuelson realteachingthinking Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. Paul Samuelson teachinglawwriting It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years. Paul Smith teachingartschool«132133134135136137138139140141142»
