One Hundred Seventy-Eight

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. – John Mason Brown

He has learned to no purpose that is not able to teach. – Samuel Johnson

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 Seventy-Three

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. – Ann Richards

Housework is a breeze.  Cooking is a pleasant diversion.  Putting up a retaining wall is a lark.  But teaching is like climbing a mountain. – Fawn M. Brodie

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-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

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 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-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-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 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 Twenty-Four

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching? – Nicholas Johnson

One Hundred Twenty-Three

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message... the drawing out, not the pumping in. – Ashley Montagu

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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 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 Eight

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country. – Abigail Adams

Let it be lost on no one that one of the most important jobs in this country is teaching. Teachers can influence and motivate an entire generation. – Abigail Van Buren