Teaching Education Quotes - Page 2

• Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

  David P. Gardner

  Education, Teaching, Facts

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• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Math, Science

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs

  Teacher, Technology, Online Learning

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

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• Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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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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• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  Haim Ginott

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

  "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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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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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  "Deming: The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, February 28, 1995.

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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