Quotes About Education

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don't know anything, but because they don't know what they don't know!

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?