Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
-- George Evans
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
-- Martina Horner
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-- Plato
As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...
-- Jean Medick
Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.
-- Sharon Feiman-Nemser
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
-- Lee Iacocca
Don't set your wit against a child.
-- Jonathan Swift
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.
-- Robert Hutchins
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
-- Anonymous
They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Anonymous
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
-- Joseph Campbell
I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
-- Chinese Proverb
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
-- Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
-- W. B. Yeats
The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
-- Marva Collins
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry B. Adams
Information cannot replace education.
-- Earl Kiole
We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.
-- Anonymous
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
-- William C. Bagley
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.
-- Meladee McCarty
Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion.
-- Unknown
Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher.
-- Aaron Bacall
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
-- David M. Burns
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
-- Linnaeus
A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry Adams
knowledge.
-- William H. Gray III
Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.
-- Claus Moser
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
-- Allan Bloom
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
-- Albert Einstein
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
-- Albert Einstein
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Grade school is the snooze button on the clock radio of life.
-- John Rogers
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
-- B.B. King
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
-- Benjamin Franklin