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“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

Source: The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

Source: Interaction of Color

“To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

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Author:John Cotton Dana

“The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

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

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works

“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“When one teaches, two learn.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“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.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...”

“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.”

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

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

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”

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Author:David P. Gardner

“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”