Quotes on Student Learning

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

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

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.

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

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.