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“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

Real Culture Reading Literature Education Learning Teaching Educational Contemporary Schooling Obsolete Unschooling Substitution

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.”

Mind Heart May Education Far Away

Author:Chanakya

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”

Want Play Education Inner Child Children Playing Child At Heart

Author:Gottfried Benn

“Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.”

Mind Heart Wisdom Desire Education Divine Needed Speech Senses Purity Compassionate Platforms Passion And Purity

Author:Chanakya

“Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.”

Left Education Cutting Tree Standing Forests Crooked Dealings Woods And Forests

Author:Chanakya

“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”

Persons Spiritual Moving Spirituality Education Quiet Satisfied Tranquility Greedy Here And There Tranquillity Nectar

Author:Chanakya

“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.”

Men Should Purpose Ability Education Wise Accomplish Dues Senses Cranes

Author:Chanakya

“The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.”

Wisdom Earth Education Sun Wind All Things Shining Blow Sun Shines

Author:Chanakya

“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

Children Parent Education Too Much Solitude Parenting Trespassing

Book:A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

“Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.”

“Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.”

Children Peace Education Teach Violence Our Children

Author:Colman McCarthy

“We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.”

Children War Spirit Peace Education Teach Horror Our Children Glorify Militarism Pacifism

Author:Albert Einstein

“Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.”

World Faces Religion Change Church Education Christianity Principles Affair Introducing Primitive Encyclopedia Christian Heritage Public Affairs God And Country

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.”

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”

Book Wisdom Education Awareness

Author:Horace

“Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.”

Ifs Work Education Advice

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”

Mind Heart Forget Education Youth Educational Educated Educate Education And Knowledge

Author:Dalai Lama

“Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.”

Ifs School Change Education Policy High School Agree Tragic Bad Business Redesign

Author:Melinda Gates

“College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.”

Thinking Believe Philosophy I Believe Change Education Changed College Changed My Life Belive

Author:Steve Martin

“Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.”

Should Soul God Helping Use Spiritual Growth Chance Perfect Education Growing Strength Divine Offers Draws Yoga Perfection Tasks Aim Refuse Noble Chiefs Spheres Soul Searching Aim Of Education

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.”

Thinking Trying Wells Past Community Ability Education Vision Produce Fit Future Well Being Urges Visions Of The Future Knowledge Of The Past

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”

Firsts Littles Education Week Late Holiday Vacation Novelty Enticing

Book:A Jest of God

Source: A Jest of God

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.”

People Inspirational Done Education Teacher Seeing Education And Teachers Teacher And Student Teachers Learning From Students

Author:Gilbert Highet

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

Ifs Knows Life Long Ideas Moving Education Learning Growing Skills Excellence Insight Long Life Learners Achiever Teaching Learning New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Denis Waitley

“The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”

Inspirational Fear Education Technology Learning Teaching College Average Bones Teenager Graveyard Thesis Transference University Education

Author:J. Frank Dobie

“A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”

Persons Culture Hurt Poor Education Teacher Diversity Social Justice Surgeons

Author:Ernest L. Boyer

“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”

Important Helping Education Teaching Students Training Independent Outcomes Life Lesson Formal Independent Women Formal Education

Author:Paul E. Gray

“"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."”

Form Education Authority Expertise

Author:Victoria Bond

“"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."”

Education Knowledge Tomorrow Frontiers

Author:Denis Waitley

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”

May Whole Helping Jobs Faces Education Responsibility Generations Students Future Tasks Educate Future Generation Inspirational Education

Author:Ken Robinson

“"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"”

Opportunity Differences Education Educational Making A Difference Inspirational Education

Author:Claire Fagin

“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”

Real Challenges Education Teach Struggle Learning Teacher Imagine Teaching Worst Perception Intellectual Intelligence Learners Bad Teacher

Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.”

Inspirational Funny Work Education Teaching Degrees Fellows Fats Teenager Jobless Best Work Schooled Wordplay Doctorates Abbreviations Working A Lot

Author:Fats Domino

“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.”

Inspirational Humans Shows Lying Natural Education Circumstances Resources Surface Meaning Of Life Buried Natural Resources Human Resources Self Education

Author:Ken Robinson

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

Should Important Inspiration Motivation Education Creativity Learning Treats Educational Literacy Self Education Teaching And Education Teaching Education Education And Literacy Creativity And Learning Creativity In Education

Author:Ken Robinson

“I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

Ifs Believe Inspiration Motivation I Believe Grows Education Creativity Learning Educational Educated Creativity In Education

Author:Ken Robinson

“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”

Happens School Stuff Growth Education Learning Groups Teamwork Collaboration Cooperation Cooperation And Collaboration

Author:Ken Robinson

“Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.”

People May Common Education Liberty Teacher Teaching Security Degrees All Things Dues Convinced Rely Preservation Thank You Good Sense

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”

Needs Important Action Work Education Knowledge Learning Teacher Students Experience Perceive Good Work Effective Teacher

Author:Stephen Brookfield

“I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.”

Ifs Want Needs Art Parent My Own Education Teach Teacher Share Teaching Mines Brother Equal Partners Swear Fees Livelihood

Book:Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

Source: Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

“Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.”

Ifs Real Facts School Difficult Education Teacher Teaching Information Produce Impression Understand Me Procurement Useful Information

Book:What is called thinking?

Source: What is called thinking?

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”

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Author:Darwin D. Martin

“Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”