Quotes About Education

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.