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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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

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

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

“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.”

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

“Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.”

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

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

“Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.”