Teaching Effectiveness Quotes

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

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.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

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

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

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.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.