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