Quotes on Teaching Students

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.