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