Sixty-Three

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
– Barbara Tuchman

Sixty-Two

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art, and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works. – Ernest L. Boyer

Sixty-One

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G. K. Chesterton

Education is the transmission of civilization.
– Ariel and Will Durant

Sixty

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. – Robert H. Shaffer

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
– William Arthur Ward

Fifty-Nine

A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing. – Laurent A. Daloz

Fifty-Eight

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. – Louis A. Berman

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fifty-Seven

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

Fifty-Six

Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. – Sidney Hook

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. 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.– Carl Jung

Fifty-Five

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Chinese proverb

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. – John Dewey

Fifty-Four

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?– Francis Bacon

Fifty-Three

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
– George Peabody

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
– Euripides

Fifty-Two

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. – Carl Rogers

Fifty-One

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
– W. Edwards Deming

Surely, therefore, the very nature and needs of the contemporary world make the teacher an indispensable member of society.
– Calvin O. Davis

Fifty

A good teacher is one who says something you won't understand until ten years later.– Julius Lester

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
– W. H. Auden

Forty-Nine

This is the road I have tried to tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and 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. – Paulo Freire

Forty-Eight

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life – of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action - in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. – Benjamin Jowett

Forty-Seven

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.– G. K. Chesterton

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world. – Arnold Glasgow

Forty-Six

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. – J. Willis Hurst

Forty-Five

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
– Horace Mann

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.– Franklin P. Jones