Quotes About Education

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

If kids come to us [educators teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

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 believes to be of value.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Rise by learning. Knowledge is never bought on counters or sold in any store, knowledge is the transferred Light from teacher to student...

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.