100+ Schools And Teachers Quotes

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

- Chuck Norris

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Teacher, School Teachers, Schools And Teachers

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

- Barbara Coloroso

topic: Inspirational, Family, Teacher, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

- Mortimer Adler

source: "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Teaching, Going Back To School, Inspirational Learning

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

- Jacob Bronowski

source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: Attributed; no source found

topic: Education, People, Impossible, Teacher Student, Student Learning

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Inspirational, Education, Children, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

- Edward Everett

source: "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

topic: Education, Freedom, War, Student Learning, First Day Of School

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

- E. M. Forster

source: "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Running, Self Education, Good Students

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

topic: Positive, Education, Children, Student Learning, First Day Of School

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Education, Teacher, Life Changing, Chalk, Teacher Appreciation

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Math Education, Math Teacher

Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.

- Dorothy H Cohen

topic: Teacher, Children, Communication, Mutual Trust, Parents And Teachers

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

- Norton Juster

topic: Teacher, Kids, School, Interesting Ideas, Schools And Teachers

We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic.

- Cindy Wright

topic: Teacher, Commitment, Writing, Intentionality, Schools And Teachers

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

- Diane Ravitch

topic: Teacher, School, Foundation, Schools And Teachers

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

- John Carlos

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Schools And Teachers

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