“When teachers stop learning, so do students.”
“When you’re in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him or her.”
“A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.”
“It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care, and then vice-versa.”
“Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.”
“Teacher: a master who, through personal example, inspires students to rebel against learning.”