2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers.

The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day.

Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

As a teacher we have the thing of not speaking in the negative. So instead of saying to a child: "Stop talking", you'd say: "I need you to sit quietly". Have the positive versus the negative.

Music and symbols, they're older than human race.Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.