Educational Quotes Time to Think and Reflect

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. -- Deborah Meier

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. -- George Evans

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -- Doris Lessing

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. -- Martina Horner

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -- Plato

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough... --Jean Medick

Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish. -- Sharon Feiman-Nemser

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. -- Lee Iacocca

Don't set your wit against a child. -- Jonathan Swift

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. -- Robert Hutchins

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon. -- Anonymous

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. -- Joseph Campbell

hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. -- Chinese Proverb

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. -- Marva Collins

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry B. Adams

Information cannot replace education. -- Earl Kiole

We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. -- Anonymous

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach. -- Meladee McCarty

Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. -- Unknown

Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher. -- Aaron Bacall

A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry Adams

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B. F. Skinner

Children need models rather than critics. -- Joseph Joubert

Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions. -- D.T. Max

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. -- John Bradshaw

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted. --Linda Conway

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it. -- Soren Kierkegaard

The highest result of education is tolerance. -- Helen Keller

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

Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time. -- Linda Shalaway

Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is not a spectator sport. -- Anonymous

The important thing is not to stop questioning. --Albert Einstein

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. -- John F. Kennedy

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi

You learn something every day if you pay attention. -- Ray LeBlond

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. -- Marvin Minsky

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. -- John Lubbock

I teach therefore I am. -- Anonymous

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

Everyone in this room is a teacher. -- BJ Gallagher