Forty-Four

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
– Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
– Frederick Douglass

Forty-Three

The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never the same – is as its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely practical and yet transcendent, brutally matter-of-fact, and yet fundamentally a creative act. Teaching begins in challenge and is never far from mystery. – William Ayres

Forty-Two

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
– Steve Droke

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
– Barbara Jordan

Forty-One

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations. – bell hooks

Forty

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. – Jean Piaget

Thirty-Nine

As a business education teacher, my students often ask me if what they are learning will make them wealthy. I smile and say, No, but it will make you RICH by having Responsibility, Integrity, Character, and Honesty. – Joe Ward

Thirty-Eight

Teaching is a daily exercise in vulnerability. – Parker Palmer

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Thirty-Seven

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. – Julius Lester

Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. – S. I. Hayakawa

Thirty-Six

My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind. And behold, all things have changed. – Anne Sullivan

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn. He will not work joyously unless he feels that liberty is his, whether he is busy or at rest; he must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way bravely through a dull routine of textbooks.
– Helen Keller

Thirty-Five

Do not train boys to learning by fear and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so they may better discover the bent of their minds. – Socrates

You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters. – Plato

Thirty-Four

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
– Marian Wright Edelman

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
– Marian Wright Edelman

Thirty-Three

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.
– Fred Allen

I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde

Thirty-Two

Great oaks from little acorns grow. – Latin proverb

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – Hodding Carter

Thirty-One

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape – not from our own time, for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time. – T. S. Eliot

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
– Robert Maynard Hutchins

Thirty

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
– George Ade

Twenty-Nine

This is no argument against teaching manners to the young. On the contrary, it is a fine old tradition that ought to be resurrected from its current mothballs and put to work... In fact, children are much more comfortable when they know the guide rules for handling the social amenities. – Leontine Young

Twenty-Eight

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
– Abraham Lincoln

Education does not mean a college education. The author of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural could hardly be called uneducated. – Bergen Evans

Twenty-Seven

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.
– John Garrett

Twenty-Six

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger? – Thomas Henry Huxley

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. – Bob Edwards

A little learning, indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

Twenty-Five

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
– William R. Inge

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
– Mohammed