Quotes About Teaching

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

In education, parody is obsolete.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

I like the concept of local education.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.