Quotes on Teaching Learning

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.

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.