2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Bilang guro, hindi ka dapat manguna sa mga naniniwalang hindi lahat ng tao ay may kapasidad matuto. Sumasalamin lang ito sa kapasidad mong magturo.

Mi padre suele decir que los mejoeres maestros no siempre son los que usan pizarra

A driving licence only gives permission to legally operate a motor vehicle, it does not promise efficiency. Most amateur drivers have to face flak and occasional road rage until they learn to master the vehicle like a boss. Similarly, a teacher’s degree only gives permission to officially teach in classrooms. Teachers have to face flak until they learn to master classroom situations. It is all about consistent practice, willingness to learn, patience and persistence.

That's the worst thing about teaching, that our actions either have no force at all or have force beyond all intention, an not only our actions but our failures to act, gestures and words held back or unspoken, all we might have done and failed to do; and, more than this, that the consequences echo across years and silence, we can never really know what we've done.

this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later

Teaching requires that you work at being a person and work at understanding people and the world, and work at feelings and connecting and respect in ways and to a magnitude that is not often asked of adults who aren't bartenders.

Teaching is like trying to shove a couch that is too wide through a door. No amount of pushing harder is going to help until you figure out that you need to flip the damn thing on its side.

Antiracist teaching is a process. It is a process without end, without a graduation and a certification as officially antiracist, which is all the better reason to work with urgency.

A teacher is only as effective as his ability to understand where his student is.