Teaching Method Quotes

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

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

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.