I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.
Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
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.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.
Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.
Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them's the breaks.
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.
Programming is usually taught by examples.
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
