Quotes About Education

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge.

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

To be an excellent teacher, you need to lower yourself to the knowledge level of your student.

A teacher's profession is the one true profession which asks for nothing in return, but only gives, and gives till the very end.

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

The greatest teaching was imparted by individuals who not just learnt a subject, but practiced it as well.

Teaching is a priceless gift to any determined learner. Good teachers are therefore priceless gifts to eager learners.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

I love my failures because they taught me more than my teachers ever could...

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.