One Hundred Seventy

In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain.

One Hundred Sixty-Nine

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. - African proverb

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. - Simone Weil

One Hundred Sixty-Eight

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Mandell Creighton

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than giving of right answers. - Josef Albers

One Hundred Sixty-Seven

The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as graying accountants. - Laurent A. Daloz

One Hundred Sixty-Six

The classroom and the teacher occupy the most important position of the human fabric.... In the schoolhouse we have the heart of the whole society. - Henry Golden

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. - A. Bartlett Giamatti