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

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

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

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

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

“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.”

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

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

“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."”

“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.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

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

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“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.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

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

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“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.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.”

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“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.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”