No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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."
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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