teaching

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don__ lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another__ who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

New learning never hurt anybody.

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn__ fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.

Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

When you don__ learn the best, you will teach the worst.

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

If we can recognize what makes us unique, and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding__ssentially, a transformative experience for our students.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

If we can recognize what makes us unique and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding__ssentially, a transformative experience for our students.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

There is no doubt that great teaching and great teachers have a significant impact on students and their long-term association with school and with learning.

To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?