Quotes on Schools And Teachers

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

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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.

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

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.