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When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Sep 18, 2025
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Men learn while they teach.
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.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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."
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
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.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.