Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

John Dewey

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

John Dewey

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

John Dewey

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

John Dewey

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

John Dewey

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

John Dewey

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

John Dewey

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

John Dewey

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Leo Tolstoy

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Leo Tolstoy

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

Leo Tolstoy

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Leo Kottke

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

Leo Buscaglia

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Lauren Conrad

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

Lewis Black

I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.

Leonard Boswell

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

Leonard Baskin

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Joseph Stiglitz

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Joseph Stiglitz

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Joseph Stiglitz

It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much that seems so counter to what the world is like. Many of the things that I'm going to describe make so much more common sense than these notions that seem counter to what ones eyes see every day.

Julie London

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Joyce Brothers

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.