Twenty-Four

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
– Aristotle

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

Twenty-Three

To ask a question may bring a moment’s shame, but not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifetime of shame. – Geoffrey Moss

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles P. Steinmetz

Twenty-Two

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
– William Arthur Ward

Good teachers learn from their mistakes. Great teachers learn from other's mistakes.– Reed Markham

Twenty-One

Modern cynics and skeptics . . . see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
– John F. Kennedy

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
– Evan Esar

Twenty

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – Sir John Lubbock

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – Sir William Haley

Nineteen

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
– Plutarch

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– William Butler Yeats

Eighteen

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
– Aeschylus

Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle

Seventeen

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
– John W. Gardner

Sixteen

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
– Alexander Pope

Fifteen

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. – Danish proverb

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese proverb

Fourteen

A true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
– Amos Bronson Alcott

Thirteen

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. – Alexandre Dumas

A child's wisdom is also wisdom. – Jewish proverb

Twelve

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

Eleven

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. – Elbert Hubbard

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Brooks Adams

Ten

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. – Epictetus

Nine

Public education is the link between our nation and our dream of liberty and justice for all. – Elaine Griffin (1995 National Teacher of the Year)

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. – James A. Garfield

Eight

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.
– John F. Kennedy

Seven

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
– Thomas H. Huxley

Six

Every September is like Christmas, and every student, a surprise gift to open. – Mary Bicouvaris

There is something wonderful about seeing the students come back each fall. It doesn't matter if you're teaching all ages or the same age. When they come in, it is a new beginning, a fresh start. It's a rebirth of the class for sure, but it is also a personal rebirth. You get to try it again, to be better at it. I get to do my favorite things all over again and do it fresh, with new faces in front of me. And new minds that are going to go "ah-ha." – Mark Mattson

Five

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

It is by studying little things that we attain great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
– Samuel Johnson