"Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil,..." - Quote by William James
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
More by William James
“Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”
“Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.”
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
More on Teaching
“College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”
“Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.”
“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
More on Education
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
“...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."”