One Hundred Sixty

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
– George Santayana

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
– Herbert Spencer

One Hundred Fifty-Nine

Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? You should say to each of them: "Do you know what you are? You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you. And look at your body – what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, you cunning fingers, the way you move! You may be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel." – Pablo Casals

One Hundred Fifty-Eight

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
– Robert Frost

One Hundred Fifty-Seven

A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning. – Carol B. Hillman

One Hundred Fifty-Six

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. – Joseph Campbell

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
– William Glasser

One Hundred Fifty-Five

Teaching is a calling, not a choice. – Mary Ann Alexander

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared, in all their glorious diversity, to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. – Shirley Hufstedler

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
– John Dewey

One Hundred Fifty-Four

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
– George Bernard Shaw

One Hundred Fifty-Three

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

One Hundred Fifty-Two

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education—if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon—all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

One Hundred Fifty-One

All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
– Juvenal

Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education. – Abraham Flexner

One Hundred Fifty

We must teach students about their First Amendment rights rather then restrict their use of particular books and materials. As educators, we must encourage students to express their own opinions while respecting the views of others. – Pat R. Scales

Every time we listen to a student's opinion, we practice the principles of intellectual freedom. – Pat R. Scales

One Hundred Forty-Nine

People who aren't in education just don't know what they're missing. – Keith Blue

One Hundred Forty-Eight

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom.
– Alfred North Whitehead

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. – Vernon Cooper

As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. – Barbara W. Winder

One Hundred Forty-Seven

A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning. – Carol B. Hillman

One Hundred Forty-Six

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. – A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
– Jacques Barzun

One Hundred Forty-Five

What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better. – John Holt

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

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

One Hundred Forty-Four

Those who trust us educate us. – George Eliot

One Hundred Forty-Three

Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late. – Max Forman

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. – Wendell Berry

One Hundred Forty-Two

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. – Paulo Freire

One Hundred Forty-One

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. – Felix E. Schelling

Genius without education is like Silver in the Mine.
– Benjamin Franklin

One Hundred Forty

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. – Margaret Mead

One Hundred Thirty-Nine

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
– Thomas Moore

One Hundred Thirty-Eight

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. – Kurt Vonnegut

No man is the wiser for his learning. – John Selden

One Hundred Thirty-Seven

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and highest responsibility anyone could have. – Lee Iacocca

One Hundred Thirty-Six

The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. – Alice Miller

One Hundred Thirty-Five

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. – John Ruskin

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

One Hundred Thirty-Four

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

One Hundred Thirty-Three

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
– Emma Goldman

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. – Nathan M. Pusey

One Hundred Thirty-Two

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One Hundred Thirty-One

The greatest challenges facing both the arts and education are how to navigate the perilous course between adventure and discipline; how to respond to tradition without either rejecting it or becoming its slave. – Robert W. Corrigan

The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything — getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. – Rose Hoffman

One Hundred Thirty

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. – Kurt Vonnegut

No man is the wiser for his learning. – John Selden

One Hundred Twenty-Nine

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. – Alec Bourne

One Hundred Twenty-Eight

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. – Anatole France

Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it. – William Feather

One Hundred Twenty-Seven

The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad… Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow. – Ivan Welton Fitzwater

One Hundred Twenty-Six

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw

One Hundred Twenty-Five

Educated men are as superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead. – Aristotle

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the living are to the dead." – Diogenes Laertius

One Hundred Twenty-Four

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching? – Nicholas Johnson

One Hundred Twenty-Three

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message... the drawing out, not the pumping in. – Ashley Montagu

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

One Hundred Twenty-Two

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. – St. Francis de Sales

One Hundred Twenty-One

Discipline isn’t just punishing, forcing compliance or stamping out bad behavior. Rather, discipline has to do with teaching proper deportment, caring about others, controlling oneself and putting someone else’s wishes before one’s own when the occasion calls for it. – Lawrence Balter

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. Our aim is to discipline for activity, for work, for good; not for immobility, not for passivity, not for obedience. – Maria Montessori

One Hundred Twenty

I was still learning when I taught my last class. – Claude M. Fuess

I am still learning. – Michelangelo

One Hundred Nineteen

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. – John Ruskin

One Hundred Eighteen

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. – Elbert Hubbard

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement! – Edward Blishen

One Hundred Seventeen

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for the problems of the world – comes to a single word. That word is "education."
– Lyndon B. Johnson

One Hundred Sixteen

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the value of education rests in respect for the physical, intellectual and moral will of the child. – Francisco Ferrer

One Hundred Fifteen

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge. – Confucius

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. – Benjamin Disraeli

One Hundred Fourteen

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
– Thomas H. Huxley

One Hundred Thirteen

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. – William Ellery Channing

One Hundred Twelve

In the nurturing family... parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say. – Virginia Satir

One Hundred Eleven

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

One Hundred Ten

Your work may be finished someday, but your education, never.
– Alexandre Dumas

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori

One Hundred Nine

For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. – Laurent A. Daloz

One Hundred Eight

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country. – Abigail Adams

Let it be lost on no one that one of the most important jobs in this country is teaching. Teachers can influence and motivate an entire generation. – Abigail Van Buren

One Hundred Seven

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades – some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when – I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again. – Mary Kay Blakely

One Hundred Six

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
– Mortimer Adler

One Hundred Five

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living. – James Mason Wood

One Hundred Four

Make-believe is the avenue to much of the young child’s early understanding. He sorts out impressions and tries out ideas that are foundational to his later realistic comprehension. This private world sometimes is a quiet, solitary world. More often it is a noisy, busy, crowded place where language grows, and social skills develop, and where perseverance and attention-span expand.
– James L. Hymes, Jr.

One Hundred Three

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Brooks Adams

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
– Jean de La Fontaine

One Hundred Two

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
– Lord Chesterfield

One Hundred One

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
– Charlotte Bronte

One Hundred

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
– Anatole France

Ninety-Nine

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. – Epictetus

Ninety-Eight

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. – Gunnar Myrdal

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education. – John Dewey

Ninety-Seven

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. – Jerome Bruner

Ninety-Six

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.– Aristotle

An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. – Sydney Wood

Ninety-Five

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Pablo Casals

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein

Ninety-Four

As a product of the public education system, I want all American students to have what I had – access to a quality education that enables them to pursue any career they wish, and take on any challenge they choose. – Richard Riley

Ninety-Three

If you think education is expensive – try ignorance. – Derek Bok

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.– Mark Twain

Ninety-Two

To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. – Elie Wiesel

Ninety-One (excellence)

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
– Aristotle

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. – Marva Collins

Ninety

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. – Samuel Johnson

Eighty-Nine

My own wish for children is that they learn to find joy even amidst the world's and their own imperfections, that they grow to have a clear but forgiving interior voice to guide them, and that they come to have a reasonable sense of shame without unreasonable burdens of guilt. – Fred Rogers

Eighty-Eight

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
– Latin proverb

Even while they teach, men learn. – Seneca

Eighty-Seven

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties. – Alice Miller

Eighty-Six

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
– Edward Everett

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
– Thomas Jefferson

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
– James Madison

Eighty-Five

All I really need to know … I learned in kindergarten.
– Robert Fulghum

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten. – Wendy Kaminer

Eighty-Four

When we sent our first child off to school I experienced a jarring moment, an epiphany. I had been teaching young children for many years, advising parents on a wide range of issues, including the best and most painless ways to separate from their youngsters at school. When my own time came, I found that all my good advice to others was impossible to follow myself.... I felt like a midwife friend of mine who had assisted in the births of hundreds of babies before her own first child was born. In the middle of labor she cried out, “I’ve told hundreds of women, ‘you can do it,’ and it can’t be done.” – William Ayres

Eighty-Three

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. – Rabbinical saying

The potential of a child is the most intriguing and stimulating thing in all creation. – Ray L. Wilbur

Eighty-Two

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie

Eighty-One

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. – Elbert Hubbard

The mentor/teacher is the person who sees who you are, sees your beauty, falls in love with it, helps and inspires it, giving it a chance to bloom in the world. – James Hillman

Eighty

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
– Flannery O'Conner

Seventy-Nine

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.
– bell hooks

Seventy-Eight

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter

A teacher is the candle that lights others in consuming itself.
– Giovanni Ruffini

Seventy-Seven

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.
– Jane Alexander

Seventy-Six

Experience teaches only the teachable. – Aldous Huxley

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. – Pete Seeger

Seventy-Five

Children have more need of models than of critics.
– Joseph Joubert

If there is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.
– Nathan M. Pusey