Quotes About Education

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

My teachers used to call me a failure

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.