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I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.
Sep 30, 2025
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.
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.
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.
Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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.
For the past three years, the CIVIX Student Budget Consultation has helped us to better understand the most pressing national issues for young Canadians. I am delighted to note that on key issues, such as balancing the budget, debt reduction, and lowering taxes, we stand in step with the thousands of students who participated in this initiative from coast to coast to coast. I want to thank the students and teachers for investing their time and energy in this worthwhile initiative. Their enthusiastic participation inspires great hope for Canada's future.
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
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.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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.
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."
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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.
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.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
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.
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.
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.
I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.
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.
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.