Quotes on Education And Teachers

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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 and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.