Joss Whedon Quotes

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.