Everyone, everyone is a teacher. Everyone is a teacher to someone; maybe it's your children, maybe it's a neighbor, maybe it's someone under your supervision in some other way, and in one way or another, you're teaching them by your actions (Wooden, videotaped interview, February 12, 2002)."

Ask Coach Wooden what is the most important idea teachers of every kind need to know, and he says, “Way back in the mid-'30s I picked up something and I never forgot it:

No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be.

Nor all the books on all the shelves, it's what the teachers are themselves (anon.).

Excerpted from

Nater, S. & Gallimore, R. (2005). You haven’t taught until they have learned: John Wooden’s teaching principles and practices. Morganstown, West Virginia: Fitness International Technology, Inc. Link

Research on Coach Wooden’s teaching principles Link

Coach Wooden’s website Link