Best Teaching Quotes:

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Successful, Opportunity, Special, Outliers, Best Students

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

- Richard P. Feynman

source: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Thinking, Best Teaching

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Teaching, Example, Aids, Best Teaching

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

- John Knowles

topic: Exeter, Best Teaching, Letdowns

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

- Desmond Tutu

source: Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

topic: Teaching, Israel, America, Best Teaching