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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Sep 17, 2025
When one teaches, two learn.
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
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.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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."
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, “What happened then, daddy?” I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out. I'm too tired to read. I'll read to you tomorrow.” So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don't teach children how to read. Don't teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they're working ass-backwards.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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.
NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
No one can take it away from you.
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.
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.