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[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Sep 10, 2025
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
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.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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."
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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.
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.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle 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.
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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.