Quote: When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school Author: A. S. Neil
Quote: Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community Author: Claire Aumonier
Quote: Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow Author: Ronald E. Osborn
Quote: My hear is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mild, and behold, all things are changed Author: Anne Sullivan
Quote: It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack & ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing & searching can be promoted by means of coercion & a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
Quote: The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Quote: The important thing is not to stop questioning Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom Author: George Washington Carver
Quote: There is a brilliant child locked inside every student Author: Marva Collins
Quote: It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops Author: Henry B. Adams
Quote: Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. Author: Anonymous
Quote: Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Author: Willa A. Foster
Quote: The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. Author: Mary McLeod Bethune
Quote: There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Author: James Truslow Adams
Quote: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Author: Joseph Addison
Quote: I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Author: Joseph Addison
Quote: I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Author: Woody Allen
Quote: To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Author: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Quote: Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Author: Paul Anderson
Quote: The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Author: Maya Angelou
Quote: I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Author: Edith Ann
Quote: We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides. Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
Quote: Wit is educated insolence. Author: Aristotle
Quote: The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Author: Aristotle
Quote: The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Author: Aristotle
Quote: ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Author: Matthew Arnold
Quote: Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity Author: Lady Nancy Astor
Quote: For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own Author: Athenæus
Quote: Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them Author: Marcus Aurelias
Quote: Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers. Author: Richard David Bach
Quote: You teach best what you most need to learn. Author: Richard Bach
Quote: Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Author: Waler Bagehot
Quote: The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Author: Jacques Martin Barzun
Quote: We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. Author: R. J. Baughan
Quote: The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Author: Bill Beattie
Quote: You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Author: Clay P. Bedford
Quote: The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. Author: William John Bennett
Quote: Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Author: Warren G. Bennis
Quote: A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. Author: Smiley Blanton
Quote: Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. Author: A. Whitney Brown
Quote: The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Author: Jerome Seymour Bruner
Quote: Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. Author: William Jennings Bryan
Quote: Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide Author: Buddha
Quote: When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running. Author: Mary Ingraham Bunting
Quote: Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: The city is the teacher of the man. Author: Simondes of Ceos
Quote: No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote: He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Author: G.M. Trevelyan
Quote: Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Author: Ezra Pound
Quote: When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Author: Peter Drucker
Quote: If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. Author: Desmond Bagley
Quote: I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Author: Al Mcguire
Quote: Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. Author: Albert Edward Wiggam
Quote: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. Author: George Santayana
Quote: If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. Author: Rev. Ivan Stang
Quote: Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Author: Thomas Hobbes
Quote: A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. Author: W. H. Auden
Quote: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Author: Henry Ford
Quote: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Author: Robert Frost
Quote: If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. Author: Anonymous Teacher
Quote: The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. Author: Louis Johannot
Quote: The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Author: Mark Van Doren
Quote: Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. Author: Haim G. Ginott
Quote: Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach. Author: Peter Drucker
Quote: The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. Author: Elbert Hubbard
Quote: To teach is to learn twice. Author: Joseph Joubert
Quote: A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. Author: Thomas Szaz
Quote: There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. Author: Unknown
Quote: Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. Author: John Cotton Dana
Quote: Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. Author: Unknown
Quote: The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. Author: Unknown
Quote: The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. Author: K. Patricia Cross
Quote: The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Author: Khalil Gibran
Quote: One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Author: Jacques Barzun
Quote: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Author: Unknown
Quote: Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. Author: Unknown
Quote: Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. Author: Unknown
Quote: Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. Author: Eugene P. Bertin
Quote: Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. Author: Unknown
Quote: What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Author: Karl Menninger
Quote: A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. Author: Unknown
Quote: The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Quote: The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Author: William Arthur Ward
Quote: Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. Author: Bob Talbert
Quote: We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. Author: John Sculley
Quote: A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. Author: Louis A. Berman
Quote: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Quote: A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. Author: Unknown
Quote: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Quote: Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. Author: Tracy Kidder
Quote: A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Author: Horace Mann
Quote: Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Author: Gail Godwin
Quote: A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Author: Thomas Carruthers
Quote: Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote: If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. Author: Donald D. Quinn
Quote: Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. Author: Unknown
Quote: In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Author: Jacques Barzun
Quote: The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth. Author: Dan Rather