Quotes About Education

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!