The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to tech.--Albert Einstein

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.   Margaret Mead 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok, Harvard University President

Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- - Anthony J. D'Angelo

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
--Mark Van Doren

Difficult people are as usual the greatest teachers.   Pema Chodron, Buddhist  nun (b. 1936)

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to tech. --Albert Einstein
 

While learning has many ends, teaching has only one: to enable or cause learning. Patricia Cross

Like fruit on a tree, a teacher's skills must ripen over time to achieve its full sweetness. http://innerhappiness.com/VYTT4.html

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at
maturity, are part of the experience.
-- Francis Bacon

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher. ~ Plato, Phaedo

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.   - G. K. Chesteron

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. --John F. Kennedy

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Joseph Addison, 1711

Education is the transmission of civilization. Ariel and Will Durantis the transmission of civilization. Ariel and Will Durant

Teaching is a daily exercise in vulnerability. ~ Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach

Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning.

D.B. Gowin, 1981, Educating.

 

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved. Stephen Brookfield

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. 

Confucius

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

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. Plutarch


I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am. ~ Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. Albert Einstein

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Public education is a great instrument of social change....Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country, it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.  James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard University

Education is the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art. Allan Bloom

Understanding is the knowledge of the general. Judgment is the application of the general to the particular. Reason is the power of understanding the connection between the general and the particular. ~ Emmanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Children need models rather than critics  Joseph Joubert Pensees

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment. ~ Emmanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch

Judgment is the faculty of subsuming under rules; that is, of distinguishing whether something does or does not stand under a given rule . . . judgment is a peculiar talent which can be practiced only, and cannot be taught . . . although admirable in understanding [an individual] may be wanting in natural power of judgment. He may comprehend the universal in abstracto, and yet not be able to distinguish whether a case in concreto comes under it ~ Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Tennyson

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book. - Edgar Watson Howe

There is an aspect of our vocation that is sacred Hooks, B. (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, London: Routledge.

Education to be successful, must not only inform but inspire.
- T. Sharper Knowlson

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

 

Students ratings collected a year apart from the same students correlated significantly, though the later ratings tended to rate the teacher as less effective than those collected at the end of the course. John Centra

 

Only some 12% of a national sample of almost 400,000 teachers received less then average ratings from students. John Centra

The work of a teacher—exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same—is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely practical and yet transcendent, brutally matter-of-fact, and yet fundamentally a creative act. Teaching begins in challenge and is never far from mystery. ~ William Ayres, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Georg Hegel, 1821

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F.Skinner

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything. C. V. Wedgwood

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. Confucius

What is "learning? "In its broadest sense, learning can be defined as a process of progressive change from ignorance to knowledge, from inability to competence, and from indifference to understanding....In much the same manner, instruction-or education-can be defined as the means by which we systematize the situations, conditions, tasks materials, and opportunities by which learners acquire new or different ways of thinking, feeling, and doing."

Cameron Fincher, "Learning Theory and Research," in Teaching and Learning in the College Classroom,

It is hard to convince a high school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
- Edgar W. Howe

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble. Mark Twain

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. John Kennedy

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  Goethe

Knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--Henry Brooks Adams

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

K. Patricia Cross

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. Samuel Johnson

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
--William Arthur Ward

Being clear about what teaching is matters vitally because how teachers understand teaching very much affects what they actually do in the classroom. ~ Paul H. Hirst, "What is Teaching?"

Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense. Anonymous

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
--Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain

Everything we do as teachers has moral overtones.
 ~ Nel Noddings, Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

John Dewey

If you are planning for a year, sow rice, if you are planning for a decade, plant trees, if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. -Chinese proverb

What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student—to each student—as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. ~ Nel Noddings, Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

Education is one of the few things a person is willing too pay for and not get.  -W.L. Bryan

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Goethe

History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Thucydides

 

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

 

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world---an assigned parking space. - Gene Perret

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

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.  Marian Edelman

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin

Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- - Anthony J. D'Angelo

While we teach, we learn. -Seneca

Education is a wonderful thing; if you couldn't sign your name, you'd have to pay cash. Rita Mae Brown

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John F. Kennedy

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.  M. Montessori

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.  Diogenes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Walter Bagehot (1826-77) English economist, political journalist, and critic. Physics and Politics, 1879.

 

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble. - Milton Berle

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. Dean Wiliam Inge 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  - Aristotle

Teaching is the highest form of understanding. Aristotle 

It is an easy matter to know the effects of honey, wine, hellebore, cautery, and cutting. But to know how, for whom, and when we should apply these as remedies is no less an undertaking than being a physician.
 ~ Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book V, 1137a

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

 

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Steven Brookfield

I remember how he used to teach this idea in the Group Process class back at Brandeis. I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course. Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college. Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie)

 

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) American journalist.

 

Education is a transformative experience - both for the teacher and the student. Wayne Silver Professional Development Day 2002

The academy has always sheltered lazy professors, who die from the neck up at tenure. ~ Jackson Lears, The Radicalism of Tradition: Teaching the Liberal Arts in a Managerial Age

A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings.

The Tao of Teaching

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. --William Butler Yeates

 

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.-Erasmus

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer

I like to be human because in my unfinishedness I know that I am conditioned. Yet conscious of such conditioning, I know that I can go beyond it, which is the essential difference between conditioned and determined existence. ~ Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

The best learners.. often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them. -Stephen Brookfield

Education: a debt due from present to future generations. George Peabody

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.  Henry Peter Brougham

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on. - Robert Frost

Education is better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  Edward Everett

Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the greatest success achieved is through the response we receive. J. Bonomi

The way students are taught--to engage in rote memorization, rather than to creatively solve problems--leaves them with little in the way of conceptual knowledge and analytical skills.  It's a disaster and a disgrace. Dr.  Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of
Sciences
 

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. St. Francis Xavier

Good teaching comes from good people" ~ Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.  Aristotle

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. Charlotte Bronte

Plato says man needs to be so trained from his youth up  as to find pleasures and pain in the right objects. This is what sound education means. Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.  Aristotle

Your task is to build up a character in your pupils; and a character, as I have so often said, consists in an organized set of habits of reaction.
 ~ William James, Talks to Teachers

Cultivating character is a legitimate—indeed, an inevitable—function of education. ~ Amy Gutmann, Democratic Education

Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . . .  Barbara Harrell Carson

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -- Victor Hugo

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. 
Ben  Sweetland

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.
- Henny Youngman

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things: they use a simple plan and many examples.-W.McKeachie

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money.  

Max Forman

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. ~ John Dewey, Experience and Education

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.

Erasmus

 

Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) British historian

 

 

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value.

Bertrand Russell

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed. Alan Loy McGinnis

It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.
 ~ John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address at St. Andrews

"Students learn what they care about . . .," Stanford Ericksen has said, but Goethe knew something else: "In all things we learn only from those we love." Add to that Emerson's declaration: "the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." and we have a formula something like this: "Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . . ."

Barbara Harrell Carson, 1996, Thiry Years of Stories

Information cannot replace education.

Imparato and Itarari

Make but few laws but see them well observed when once made.
 ~ John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men. ~ John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. Emerson

The greatest learning experiences, for me, were almost always the greatest personal experiences. It is hard to know which came first: interest in what was said or interest in the sayer. ~ Christina Nehring, "The Higher Yearning"

Curiosity in children is but an appetite after knowledge ~ John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. St. Francis Xavier

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. Simone Weil

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler

Each man's mind has some peculiarity, as well as his face, that distinguishes him from all others; and there are possibly scarce two children who can be conducted by exactly the same method. ~ John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

If students vary in their responsiveness to different methods, which they do, and if the skills and forms of awareness that we wish to teach students are as varied as the situations and contexts of life itself, which they are, then it follows that no one teaching method can meet all the demands of learning . . . concern for method should always be a concern for methods. ~ Marshall Gregory, "Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Teacherly Ethos"

Teachers are responsible for making judgments about what is worth learning under circumstances in which it is not self-evident what becoming informed requires. ~ Frank Pajares, "Teachers' and Students' Beliefs about Truth and Caring in the Teaching Conversation"

A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education

All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

Alvin Toffler

 

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.  Edith Hamilton

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
 ~ Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcom S. Forbes

 

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumined with any spark of vitality. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education

Information is the currency of democracy.--Ralph Nader

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. Epictitus - Discourses

He isn't a genius, he is a professor—-a being whose duty is to know everything, and have his own opinion about everything, connected with his field. ~ William James, letter to Carl Stumpf, Familiar Letters of William James

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. ~ William James, Talks to Teachers

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. --Thomas Jefferson

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. ~ John Dewey, Experience and Education

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

Truth may indeed be in the eye of the beholder, as is beauty, but the eye profits both from experience and from education. Experience requires the services of scholarship, knowledge, and reflection to define, refine, and redefine the eye's evolving judgment of what is true, and what is beautiful.
 ~ Frank Pajares, Because There Is More Light There

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
George Givot

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Einstein
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less. --Lee Iacocca

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.
 ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti, "To Make Oneself Eternal, from A Free and Ordered Space

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
--Japanese proverb

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not
always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

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