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-Two

Students do not need to be labeled or measured by more than they are. They don't need more federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
– Marva Collins

If anything concerns me, it's the oversimplification of something as complex as assessment. My fear is that learning is becoming standardized. Learning is idiosyncratic. Learning and teaching is messy stuff. It doesn't fit into bubbles.
– Michele Forman (2001 Teacher of the Year)

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

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-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 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 Nine

For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. – Laurent A. Daloz

Ninety-Four

As a product of the public education system, I want all American students to have what I had – access to a quality education that enables them to pursue any career they wish, and take on any challenge they choose. – Richard Riley

Fifty-Five

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Chinese proverb

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. – John Dewey

Forty-Nine

This is the road I have tried to tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher. – Paulo Freire

Forty-Six

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. – J. Willis Hurst

Forty-One

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations. – bell hooks

Thirty-Nine

As a business education teacher, my students often ask me if what they are learning will make them wealthy. I smile and say, No, but it will make you RICH by having Responsibility, Integrity, Character, and Honesty. – Joe Ward

Thirty-Six

My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind. And behold, all things have changed. – Anne Sullivan

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn. He will not work joyously unless he feels that liberty is his, whether he is busy or at rest; he must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way bravely through a dull routine of textbooks.
– Helen Keller

Twenty-Seven

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.
– John Garrett

Fourteen

A true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
– Amos Bronson Alcott