Quotes on Teaching And Learning

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

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

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.

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.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.