Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
No one can take it away from you.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
If you think you can't, you're right.
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.
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