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  • Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

    Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan
  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

    George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

    "Chuck Norris Interview — Las Vegas 1999". Interview with Geoff Thompson, magazine.fighttimes.com. April 01, 2005.
  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

    Attributed; no source found
  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  • Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

  • Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

    "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
  • The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

    "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.
  • Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.

  • The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

  • I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  • We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic.

  • Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

    "Moving Forward".
  • It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

    "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.
  • The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  • In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  • I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

    Teacher   School   Kids  
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  • The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

    Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.200, Basic Books
  • Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  • My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

    Teacher   Father   School  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

    John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
  • The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

    William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”
  • The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  • If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

    Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.
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