One Hundred Seventy-Four

I teach with my heart and my soul and not with my mouth alone. – Jaime Escalante

If I don't get through to these children – who knows? – maybe no one else will.
– Ivan Neal

One Hundred Sixty-One

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
– Marcus T. Cicero

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
– Desiderius Erasmus

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-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-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 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

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-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-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 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-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 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 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 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 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.

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