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“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”

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

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

“I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.”

“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.”

“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”

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

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“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."”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“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.”

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“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.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

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

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

“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.”

“If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.”

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

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

“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”