Good Teacher – Quotes

Good teaching is one-fourth

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin

Good teachers cost a

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

A good teacher who

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel. Eva Amurri

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

I have a principle

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don’t grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure. Erica Brown

I thought I was

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

A good teacher must

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. Eliphas Levi

The biggest barrier we\\’ve

The biggest barrier we’ve seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change. Eli Broad

Spoon feeding in the

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster

A good teacher will

A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don’t give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it. Frederick Lenz