Quotes by Teaching Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. John Jay Chapman teachingteacherlife Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys. John Dewey commodityteachingmay My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. John Henrik Clarke daddylandteaching If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. John Henrik Clarke developmentteachingway Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted. John Jay Chapman teachinghometeacher Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything. John Kricfalusi readingteachingart What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors. John L. Casti teachingmathsong The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. John Dewey teachingteachergiving The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. John Knowles letdownsyaleteaching To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. John Dewey learningcareteaching As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. John Dewey structureteachingneeds In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing. John Dewey emotionalteachingchildren I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton John le Carre teachingtwofather As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill. John Dewey skillsteachingschool Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. John Lyly teachingyoung If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order. John Lancaster Spalding simpleteachingmean The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it. John Locke learningteachingeducation Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. John Lubbock readingteachingeducation People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. John Kenneth Galbraith progressteachingpeople Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. John Maeda designteachingneeds«8788899091929394959697»
