A Great Teacher's Influence

"The influence of a great teacher can never be erased."

I Teach

"I facilitate thinking.  I engage minds.  I listen to questions.  I encourage risk.  I support struggle.  I cultivate dreams.  I learn every day.  I teach."



Involve

"Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I may remember.  Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin

If You Want to Build a Ship

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Teaching

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

The Best Teacher

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Make a Living and Make a Life

"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."- Source Unknown

Education's Purpose

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

Asking Questions

“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” - Albert Einstein

Change

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin

Diversified Learning

"All universities ought to do a better job of encouraging students to take courses outside of their major."

Classroom Dynamic

"The teacher's behavior and teaching style, the structure of the course, the nature of the assignments and informal interactions with students all have a large effect on student motivation." - Karin Kurk

Encouragement

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."

A Teacher's Witty Remark

"On one occasion a student burst into his office. 'Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me.' To which Stigler replied, 'I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award.'"

Confidence Learning

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves." - Joseph Campbell

Interest Learning

"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." - Plato

A Sense of Ownership

“The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.” - Adora Svitak

Independent Learning

"Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest."

Diversity

"The greater the diversity of stimuli, the richer the creative mind."

Learn from Your Students

"The greatest part of being a teacher is learning from your students." - Paulo Freire