Teaching

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I am not a teacher but an awakener.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov, Russian physician, short-story writer, and dramatist, 1860-1904Knowledge: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Every student needs someone who says, simply, You mean something. You count.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

We are the best teachers when we are active learners.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Teachers make all other professions possible.

Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.