A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. — Bill Bowerman
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves — Leonard Roy Frank
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions. — Stephen Brookfield
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. — Marva Collins
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. — Bill Moyers
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns. — Alfie Kohn
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn — LouAnne Johnson
Collecting a teacher’s knowledge may help us solve the challenges of the day but understanding how a teacher thinks can help us navigate the challenges of a lifetime. — Adam Grant
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. — Eric Mazur
there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be — J. K. Rowling
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends. — Bob Goff
Teachers From Kids Quotes
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. — Pat Conroy
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — Bertrand Russell
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. — Barbara Coloroso
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity. — Henry Ford
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. — Tryon Edwards
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. — Philip Wylie
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. — Mark Twain
A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Student Learning Quotes
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. — Og Mandino
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong
It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement. — Harry Wong
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes. — Sonia Sanchez
Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. — Howard Gardner
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. — Marva Collins
Teaching Students Quotes
You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow. — John Dewey
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey
Learn to say No without explaining yourself.
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. — Carter G. Woodson
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards. — Seymour Papert
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. — Dale Carnegie
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
People Writing About Teachers Learning From Students
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. — Marva Collins
I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test. — Erin Gruwell
Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think. — Takashi Murakami
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Men learn while they teach. — Seneca
Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done. — Gilbert Highet
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact. — George Lucas
There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play. — Joshua Bell
I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher. — Andre Dubus
Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read. — Dorie Greenspan
I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education. — David Shuster
Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn. — Margaret Mead
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can. — Frederick Lenz
I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them. — Leslie Jamison
My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again. — Maya Angelou
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn. — Herbert Simon
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. — John Wooden
Teachers learn from their students' discussions — Rashi
A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field. — Anna Nalick
Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes. — Darren Shan
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. — Ayn Rand
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT. — John Irving
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