2,279 Quotes About Teaching



  • Author Tim Gunn
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    If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

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  • Author Tim Gunn
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    When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

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  • Author Tracey Gold
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    Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

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  • Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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    If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

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  • Author William Glasser
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    In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

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  • Author Antony Hewish
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    Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

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  • Author Brad Henry
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    A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

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