2,279 Quotes About Teaching

My dream is to help my students achieve their dreams.

I believe that the ideal teaching of "skills" should be intentional and explicit, as well as be: (1) situated within engaging activities; (2) embedded in real writing, reading, and communication or, if taught in isolation, put immediately into the context of real writing, reading, and communication; and (3) taught flexibly when needed, rather than as an unvarying curriculum.

Successful instruction is constant, rigorous, integrated across disciplines, connected to students' lived cultures, connected to their intellectual legacies, engaging, and designed for problem solving that is useful beyond the classroom.

While it is certainly true that inequity, family issues, poverty, crime, and so forth all affect poor children's learning opportunities, British educator Peter Mortimore found that the quality of teaching has six to ten times as much impact on achievement as all other factors combined.

Which one is really my child? The one I brought forth with my own groans who has no liking for the thing I love most in all the world, or the stranger’s child whom fate placed in my life, the one who is absorbing and treasuring every word I give her, whose eyes are learning every day, whom I would love to teach...

This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…

Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Don’t ever undermine a teacher!