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

Forty-Three

The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never the same – is as its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely practical and yet transcendent, brutally matter-of-fact, and yet fundamentally a creative act. Teaching begins in challenge and is never far from mystery. – William Ayres

Forty-Two

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
– Steve Droke

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
– Barbara Jordan

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

Forty

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. – Jean Piaget

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-Eight

Teaching is a daily exercise in vulnerability. – Parker Palmer

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Thirty-Seven

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. – Julius Lester

Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. – S. I. Hayakawa

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

Thirty-Five

Do not train boys to learning by fear and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so they may better discover the bent of their minds. – Socrates

You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters. – Plato