Teaching Goals Quotes

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

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

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.