In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
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.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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