Quotes About Education

For me the mark of a great History teacher is the ability to take students to places outside the classroom while staying in the classroom.

Since I've been in the education business - often the only way to relate to teachers, parents & children - are with words of wisdom. If I could know all the wise books by heart - I would stand a chance at being a better Headmaster. Also for when it comes to my family & friends - that knowledge would always be there to give inspiration & encouragement & tell me who can't use that with their relatives!

There's something flabby about teaching in a place like this," He said. "If you don't have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in.

Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.

Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.

Instead of opportunities for serious accomplishment in our culture, we supply our children with expensive toys, hoping that these will occupy them and keep them from disturbing us.

Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a unique contribution to make to the world. Until this is done, our schools will fail to help children become active learners, connected to their society, and empowered to accomplish things within it.

parents moved to Rome in order that their only daughter might receive a better education. They encouraged her to become a teacher, the only career open to women at the time. However, Montessori was a women's

Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.

She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched.

He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.

Montessori stated that nothing should be given to the brain that is not first given to the hand. By this she meant that abstract ideas and information of every possible kind should be given to the young child first in concrete form to be held, discovered, and explored.

In addition to doing practical-life activities at home, many children by the time they are eighteen months old are ready to spend three hours a morning doing these (and other activities) in a setting outside their own home.

the adult's role is to "teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it.

To educate is a great task but it is to put our personal effort at the service of the next generation for the benefit of all humanity. Our effort in education is what will be left of ourselves in life.

Teachers are discouraged because it is impossible for them to meet the demands being placed on them. They are asked to spend their days in the exhausting position of having to control and dominate children. They must herd, push, and pull them as one body through a set curriculum. Only those who have had to attempt this inhuman and unnatural endeavor could possibly appreciate the strain it places on the teacher who singlehandedly must accomplish it.

She is happy because her opportunities for learning match her abilities.

Perhaps worst of all, excellent students were betraying their individuality and the development of whatever unique talents they might possess to play the "school game." They were functioning like computers: experts at absorbing what the teacher put forth, sorting out what she wanted back, and regurgitating it in the manner in which she most liked to receive it.

Oddly, Angela took to school like a bird to flight. She completed her homework almost before the teacher finished assigning it and read twice as many books as required. She had an understanding of history as if she'd lived it. Most surprising, she could stand in front of the classroom and read with the passion and clarity of a little southern Shakespearean thespian.

He turned the page. He said, This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Lack of knowledge is dangerous

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.