education

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

"Those who trust us educate us."

"I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds."

"Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."

"The great mentor is master builder of great students."

"Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning."

"[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students)."

"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."

"You grow by educating yourself to be more aware and more conscious."

"But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."