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Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
Sep 10, 2025
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
They know enough who know how to learn.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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...
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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.
Education is our passport to the future.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.