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A collection of profound quotes on teaching and education, emphasizing the importance of connection, understanding, and inspiration. Explore the wisdom of renowned figures throughout history.
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Education Quotations Compiled by:Jeffrey Pommerville, Ph.D.Glendale Community College2009
Parker J. Palmer Most of us go into teaching not for fame or fortune but because of a passion to connect.
Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986) I touch the future. I teach.
K. Patricia Cross Passive leaning is an oxymoron; there is no such thing.
Lily Tomlin (as Edith Ann) I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Mitch Albom(Tuesdays with Morrie) Have you ever had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) . . . above all things we must be aware of what I will call inert 'ideas' ‑ that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
Chinese proverb I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.
Mary Hatwood Futrell When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.
Cracking the SAT II (1999) . . . we'll show you that you don't really have to understand anything . . . .When we get through, you may not really understand much . . . But you don't have to, and we'll prove it.
Lao Tzu (c. 600 B.C.E) To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
Wilbert J. McKeachie Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E) Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Cameron Beatty Teaching: the earth doesn't move every time, but when it does, what a RUSH!
The Tao of Teaching A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings.
William Glasser Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) A true journey lies not in seeking new shores but in finding new eyes.
Max Forman Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little as he can for his money.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Parker J. Palmer Children [and students] may forget what you say, but they’ll never forget how you make them feel.
Mark Twain (Satchel Page?) It's not what you don't know that will hurt you. It's what you think you know that just ain't so.
A. N. Whitehead (1861-1957) The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
Unknown If you study to remember, you will forget, but, if you study to understand, you will remember.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Anonymous Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.
K. Patricia Cross The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Mark Van Doren (1894-1973) The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Barbara Harrell Carson Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . . .
Malcom S. Forbes (1919-1990) Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
John Dewey (1859-1952) We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
K. Patricia Cross Learning is . . . an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
James Bryce (1838-1922) To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.
Edmund Burke (1787-1848) The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.
UNESCO Teaching is the world's most important job.
Mari Evans Education is the jewel casting brilliance into the future.
George Givot (1903-1984) Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
Henry B. Adams (1838-1918) Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Thomas Carruthers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Anonymous The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
Anonymous A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
R. Fielder & R. Brent Much of what happens in most classes is a waste of everyone’s time. It is neither teaching nor learning. It is stenography.
Anonymous Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Woody Allen (Annie Hall) I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year . . . for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) To teach is to learn twice over.
Steve Allen (1921-2000) To educate . . . does not mean merely to inject with knowledge but to help to master the process of investigating what knowledge is for.
