Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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.
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.
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.
It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: