Education Quotes - Page 37

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.

Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception.

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.