Quotes on Teaching And Learning

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

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

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

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.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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

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

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

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

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.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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