Fifty-Three

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
– George Peabody

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
– Euripides

Fifty-Two

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. – Carl Rogers

Fifty-One

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
– W. Edwards Deming

Surely, therefore, the very nature and needs of the contemporary world make the teacher an indispensable member of society.
– Calvin O. Davis

Fifty

A good teacher is one who says something you won't understand until ten years later.– Julius Lester

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
– W. H. Auden

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-Eight

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life – of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action - in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. – Benjamin Jowett

Forty-Seven

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.– G. K. Chesterton

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world. – Arnold Glasgow

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-Five

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
– Horace Mann

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.– Franklin P. Jones

Forty-Four

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
– Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
– Frederick Douglass