The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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 a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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.
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.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
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.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
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