Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
No one can take it away from you.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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