How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
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.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
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