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

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“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.”

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

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

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

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

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

“We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.”

“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.”

“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”

“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.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“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.”

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

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

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

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

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

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?”