Quotes that Hold the True Meaning of Education
Great quotes make complexity simple. The following have three themes in common:
1) They speak to parents and teachers.
2) They support research in youth development and education.
3) They provide impetus toward adult actions that support learning.
- “Education...is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all, by example.” — John Ruskin
- “The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” — Joseph Campbell
- “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” — Robert Frost
- “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.’” — Maria Montessori
- “Education...is not to reform students, or to amuse them, or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, and teach them to think straight, if possible.” — Robert M. Hutchins
- “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. “ — Jacob Bronowski
- "They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." — Carl W. Buehner
- "Tell me and I forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I understand." — Chinese proverb
- “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.” — Anonymous
- “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” — Josef Albers
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