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“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

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

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

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

“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.”

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

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

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”

“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.”

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

“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.”

“The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.”

“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...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”

“I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”

“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.”

“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

“Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”