Education Quotes - Page 2

If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.