education

"An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students."

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

"An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment."

"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."

"You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure."

"No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one."

"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."

"I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books."

"Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)"

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"You can present the material, but you can't make me care."

"Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit."

"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading."

"The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election."

"Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes."

"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it,"yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation."