Craig Barrett Quotes

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

A teacher is better than two books.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.