Quotes About Education

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.