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“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.”

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”

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

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day, the happiest single day of her life was the day that she made the first team at field hockey. And I have to say, as a biographer, that's the most important fact. I”

“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.”

“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”

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

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

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

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

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

“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“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."”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

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

“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.”

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

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

“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.”