Quotes About Education

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.