Quotes About Education

[P]eople tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over.

But one thing, at least, is certain, that no system can be satisfactory, much less successful, which does not provide for the healthy training of the whole being of the child, dividing and distinguishing mental and bodily exercise if it will, but at the same time co-ordinating them in due relations to each other...

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.

Teacher: Johnny, you only got half the answers right on your test! Johnny: No problem, Teech! Teacher: How can you say that? Johnny: I'm going to be a meteorologist.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Paper is patient.

For, truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen — that one must learn how to write?

We should emphasize not Negro History but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

Just about a month from today I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Homeschooling going well. Two students suspended for fighting, one teacher let go for drinking on the job.

We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge...

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted!

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

2 Teach is 2 Touch lives 4 Ever

...teachers touch the future...

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