Albert Einstein Quotes About Students

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Educational, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

• Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Different, Drs

• I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Students, Circumstances, Teach

• Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Light

• Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Acceptance, Class

• If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Thinking, Noble

• Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Play, Essentials

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.25, Broadway Books

• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

• When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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