Bill Gates Quotes About Teaching
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With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
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In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
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