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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Education is the mother of leadership.

But the great Master said, "I see _x000D__x000D_No best in kind, but in degree; _x000D__x000D_I gave a various gift to each, _x000D__x000D_To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.