Quotes About Education

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Success is a lousy teacher.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.