100+ Teachers Learning From Students Quotes

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Flower, Teaching, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

quote much education today is monumentally ineffective all too often we are giving young people john w gardner Quotes

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

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

Quotation Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense Quotes

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Teacher

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Educational

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Claus Moser, Baron Moser

topic: Inspirational, Ignorance, Doe, Inspirational Educational, Learning English

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Educational, Leadership Development

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Public Education, Inspiring Education

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

- Marva Collins

topic: Teacher, Trying, Firsts, Inspirational Teacher, Teacher Student

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

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

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

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

- Gilbert Highet

source: "The Art of Teaching".

topic: Teachers Learning From Students

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Education, Teacher, Believe, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

- Haim Ginott

source: "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

topic: Education, Teacher, Hurt, Inspirational Teacher, Learning And Growing

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

Men learn while they teach.

- Seneca the Younger

source: Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Teacher Student, Education And Teachers

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

- Vladimir Lenin

topic: Inspirational, Errors, Done, Learning By Doing, Teacher Student

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

- Tryon Edwards

source: " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

topic: Education, Teacher, Learning, Daily Discipline, What Is Education

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller

topic: Forgiveness, Education, Appreciation, Great Teacher, Patience And Tolerance

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

- Plato

topic: Children, Teaching, Mind, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

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

- E. M. Forster