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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
Sep 18, 2025
People teach what they most need to learn.
As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.
The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
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.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
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.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
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.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.
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.
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 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.
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do