Teaching And Learning Quotes - Page 3

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

  Simone Weil

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Nursing

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• In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

  Phil Collins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Song: Son Of Man

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Realize that everything connects to everything else.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Karma, Wisdom, Realizing

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  How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Education, Children, Stupid

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

  Claus Moser, Baron Moser

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

  Robert E. Lee

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 175), 1977.

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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