Quotes About Education

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.

You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!