Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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.
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.
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
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