One Hundred Seventy-Five

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. – Confucius

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
– Maria Mitchell

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 Seventy-Two

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. – Mignon McLaughlin

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. – Thomas Jefferson

One Hundred Seventy-One

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. – George Santayana

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