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Quotes About Education

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
~ Pat Conroy
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves
~ Henry David Thoreau
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
~ Jean Houston
You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
~ Marva Collins
Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
~ Eric Mazur
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
~ Leopold Sedar Senghor
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
~ Fawn M. Brodie
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.
~ Herbert Simon
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
~ John Dewey
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
~ Confucius
With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
~ Milton Friedman
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
~ George Whitman
Teachers learn from their students' discussions
~ Rashi
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
~ Diane Ravitch
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
~ Philip Wylie
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.
~ Robert Grudin
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
~ Willard Scott
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
~ Edward Blishen
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
~ Eva Amurri
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
~ Edmond H. Fischer
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
~ Confucius