If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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