Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.
Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
Different instructors' approaches may 'clash' with each other and result in confusion and unclear direction for the students. It's like attempting to learn how to write using both hands at the same time. How far would you go?
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
To teach is to learn twice.
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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 purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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