Quotes on Education And Teachers

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.