Quotes on Education And Teachers

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

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.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.