Teaching Challenges Quotes

People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Schools cannot teach all minority viewpoints even if they are passionately held.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.

Most teachers prefer to teach highly motivated kids who live in safe communities.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.