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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Sep 25, 2025
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.
My faith is the only thing that never fails me.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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.
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."
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
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
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
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.
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.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.