Quotes About Education

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

We learn by teaching.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.