Educator Quotes - Page 2

• Education is our passport to the future.

  Malcolm X

  Education, First Day Of School, Educational

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  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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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

  David Small

  Children, Book, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, School, Parent

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.187, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.

  Beth Murphy

  Mom, Dad, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Should, Miraculous

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part II, (p. 121), 1949.

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• My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

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• If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

  William Bennett

  Education, Children, School

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• Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

  Fred W. Friendly

  News, Today, Firsts

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