Quotes About Education

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.