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Quotes About Education

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
~ Paulo Freire
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
~ Marva Collins
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
~ Haim Ginott
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
~ Maxine Greene
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
~ Vladimir Lenin
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
~ Malala Yousafzai
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
~ Rudolf Steiner
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Adams
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals
~ Walter Lewin
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
~ Carrie Fisher
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
~ John Amos Comenius
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
~ Rudyard Kipling
To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
~ Virginia Satir
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
~ Alfie Kohn
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
~ Francis Bacon
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
~ John Taylor Gatto
If kids come to us 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.
~ Barbara Coloroso
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
~ Marva Collins
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
~ Marva Collins