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The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.
Sep 19, 2025
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea
We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic.
My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
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.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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 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.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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