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