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Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.
Sep 25, 2025
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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.
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.
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.
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.
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.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."
Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular, the history curriculum. Breitbart has a story on how this has happened. As the left appeases Muslims, public schools are teaching students to hate America.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?
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.
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.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
If you think you can't, you're right.