“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.” ThinkingKnowsMatterKidsKnow HowTeacherPiecesSubjectsAchievementCriticalGapsClosingSubject MatterImpartAchievement Gap Author:Margaret Spellings
“In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.” KnowledgeTeacherStudentsWestEastImpartTransmit Book:Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America Source: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
“The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.” ChildrenStillsCharacterAbleEducationClassTeacherTeachingInformationProtectDeserveImportancePaidMajorityIndividualityInsignificantPupilsImpartSmall Child Book:A Montessori Mother Source: A Montessori Mother
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 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.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein
“A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.” WellsReasonMightSchoolInterestTeacherStudentsCollegePersonalityContactPursueFuelSparksPipeContagiousGreat TeacherImpartPlugs Author:Edmund Ware Sinnott