Quotes on Teaching Education

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.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.