Teaching Process Quotes

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

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

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.