| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of theimagination. John Dewey, from The Quest For Certainty Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, 1988 A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it. Sigmund Freud Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Tolstoy The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Marva Collins Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men--the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. Horace Mann The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects classified by name and form. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today. Stacia Tausher One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one's growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn. Herbert Kohl We can do no great thing, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. W. L. Bryan To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt 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. Sir William Haley Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes We ought to be able to learn some things secondhand. There�s simply not enough time for us to make all the mistakes ourselves. I don�t care how much you know until I know how much you care. What we want to achieve in our work with young people is to find and strengthen the positive and healthy elements, no matter how deeply they are hidden. Karl Wilker No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past & all your decisions are about the future. Ian E. Wilson Experience is the hardest kind of teacher: It gives you the test first & the lesson afterward. |
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