Quotes About Education

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.