Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Education is the best provision for old age.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
One man with courage is a majority.
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