Quotes About Education

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.