Quotes About Education

Would you rather have your child in a room with the best equipment in the world with an average teacher or an empty room with Socrates?

I didn't realize that many people, who may be good people, feel that working in schools is just a job and not a holy mission.

Unfortunately working hard doesn't necessarily make someone an effective teacher.

I thought to myself that if I could care so much about teaching that I didn't even realize my hair was burning, I was moving in the right direction. From that moment, I resolved to always teach like my hair was on fire.

It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.

In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

If I push a few of your buttons I'm probably doing my job as a teacher!

Our assessment of reading may begin with standardized test scores, but in the end we must measure a child's reading ability by the amount of laughter exhaled and tears shed as the written word is devoured.

Socrates was the best teacher and they killed him!

We teachers are all boxers. We get hit a lot. I've been knocked down so many times I'm often woozy. But I've learned something in...the classroom: all teachers, even the best ones, get knocked down. The difference between the best ones and the others is that the best ones always get up to answer the bell. May you always get up. It is a child ringing the bell, and he needs your help.

Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them face reality. Teachers and schools lie to children and parents all the time.

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

mind is a terrible thing to waste, and the United States is wasting too many of them.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

Kindergarten, as first conceived by Friedrich Froebel in the nineteenth century, was a place where children would play, as if in a garden. However, the push to teach to the test has squeezed self-directed play out of kindergartens almost entirely, as described by the Alliance for Childhood in their report Crisis in the

The years from three to six provide a lifelong foundation for creativity that should not be undervalued or foreshortened

Indeed, we came to believe that the more informal education that families provide for their children makes more of an impact on a child's total education than the formal educational system. If a family does its job well, the professional can then provide effective training. If not, there may be little a professional can do to save a child from mediocrity.

fantasy and imagination, which are so natural for the young child, form a better foundation for later creative thinking than early learning. Creative thinking is more needed in our highly technological world than four-year-olds who can push the buttons on the computer.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

Gandhi refused to accept that tanks and bombs constituted a nation's ultimate strength. To him, the health, education and unity of a nation's people were more important.

A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned.

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

Examples may include decisions about negotiating a long-term lease for a business office, where to locate a new warehouse, whether and where to get an advanced degree, how to help your adult sibling who is clearly having personal difficulties, and what treatment to have for a serious medical condition.