Quotes on Teaching Learning

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.