Quotes About Education

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.