Quotes About Education

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.