Teaching And Learning Quotes:

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

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

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

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

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

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Teacher Student, Student Learning

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

topic: Graduation, Education, Wall, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Graduation

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic, Modern Education, Teaching And Learning

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

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Joy Of Learning, Methods Of Teaching

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

- Peter Senge

topic: Teaching, Unique, Community, Unique Gifts, Teaching And Learning

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

- W. Edwards Deming

source: "Deming The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, 1995.

topic: Improvement, Compulsory, Inspirational Learning, Self Education, Good Teaching

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

- Frederick William Robertson

source: Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching, Aspire, Educating Others

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

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Change, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Learning, Change Management

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Light, Good Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

- Benjamin Jowett

topic: Educational, Men, May, Learning And Growing, Great Teacher

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Teacher, Learning, Understanding, Inspirational Educational, Great Teacher

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation

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

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

topic: Teaching, Math, Nursing, Staying Young, Teaching And Learning

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Teacher, Song, Art, Vary, Teacher Motivational

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 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 simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”

topic: Teacher, Mind, Threshold, Teaching And Learning

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

- Claude Bernard

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Learning, Lifelong Learner, Teaching And Learning

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Math Education, Inspirational Education

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Teacher, Educational, Teaching, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Xunzi

topic: Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher, Live And Learn, Special Education

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

- Anatole France

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

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

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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

- Lloyd Alexander

source: Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Strength, Education, Wisdom, Learning By Doing, Self Education

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Education, Inspirational Learning

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

- Pablo Picasso

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

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Music, Happy Children, Fine Arts

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Retirement, Inspirational Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Learning Environment, Education System

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Good Teacher, Good Students