The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
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.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
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.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
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