“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward
“In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.”
― Harry Wong
“The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.”
― Gerald Belcher
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
― Josef Albers
“Education…is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning…by praise, but above all, by example.”
― John Ruskin
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.”
― Colleen Wilcox
“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.”
― Grayson Kirk
“The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future.”
— F. Sionil Jose