Famous Quotes

"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

James S. Coleman on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by James S. Coleman

• "The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."

• "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."

• "As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."

• "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."