Teaching Thoughts

The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Albert Einstein

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,
herein lies the first task of the teacher.  Maria Montessori

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives.  Robert Maynard Hutchins

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most
are the things you will do best.   Marva Collins

Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.  Margaret Riel

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

Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.
Dr. Ralph Tyler

People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success
is achieved.  Anne Sullivan

Knowing it and applying it are two different things.

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.  Haitian proverb

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.  Mary McLeod Bethune

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
George Washington Carver

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok, President, Harvard University

I touch the future. I teach.  Christa McAuliffe

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "WHY?"  Dr. Robert D. Ballard

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents:
destructiveness and creativeness. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never,
ever get it out.  Cardinal Wolsey

Be quick to praise, slower to criticize.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.  Mark Twain

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.  G.M. Trevelyan

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality
of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.  Grayson Kirk

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.  Socrates

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams 1780

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  Arthur C. Clarke

Teachers teach someone something, in that order.  Samuel M. Natale

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.  Herbert Spencer

The best way to predict the future is to create it.  Peter F. Drucker

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.  Bob Talbert

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.
Every individual makes a difference. Jane Goodall

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.  Henry Ford

What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher...?  It is to be able to say "the children are now working as if I did not exist.   Maria Montessori

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff.  Rule #2: It's all small stuff.  Dr. Michael Mantelli

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.  Eugene S. Wilson

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance,
or a stranger.  Franklin P. Jones

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable
to sit still in a room.  Blaise Pascal

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Is not every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Our children need to be treated as human beings - exquisite,
complex and elegant in their diversity.  Lloyd Dennis

Play ... is a way of learning by trial and error to cope with the actual world. Lawrence Frank

We live and we learn. But, sadly, at different rates.  Alan Magid

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  George Santayana

A teacher has to be a prophet who can look into the future and see the world of tomorrow into which the children of today must fit.  Anonymous

Look at everything as though you have never seen it before.  Paul Valery

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.  John Keats

Education is the art of making man ethical.  George Hegel

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  Harold S. Hulbert

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who
prepare for it today.  Malcolm X

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.  Sybil Marshall

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying.  Merry Browne

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernor Sanders

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  Winston Churchill

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcottl

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Stephen Hawking

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

In the end, we will conserve only that which we love, we will love only that which we understand, and we will understand only that which we are taught.
African Conservaitonist Baba Dioum

People only see what they are prepared to see.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can't read them.  Mark Twain

Thinking means connecting things and stops if they cannot be connected.  G.K. Chesterton

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.  Rene Descartes

The delights of self discovery are always available.  Gail Sheehy

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

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn
...and change.  Carl Rogers

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a flame.  Unknown

A Good teacher Explains ... A Superior teacher Demonstrates ... A GREAT teacher Inspires. Unknown

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

There are really no mistakes on life -- only lessons.  Anonymous

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants
and the ability to satisfy them. Henry Steele Commager

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed.  Joseph Stalin

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  Aristotle

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions. Bishop Mandell Creighton

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.  Robert E. Lee

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life
in which he is placed.  Helen Keller

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Theodore Roosevelt

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.  Arthur Ashe

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  Sydney J. Harris

Those who can, teach. Those who can't, do something far less important. Shirley Frye

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Alvin Toffler

Through education comes understanding.  Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.  John Cotton Dana

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.  It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole Francen

Education is not something which the teacher does ...it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.  Maria Montessori

The only way to be totally free is through education.   Jose Marti

All men by nature desire to know.  Aristotle

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.  Julian S. Huxley

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be
to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  Chinese Proverb

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

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

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too,
enter the mind of the child.  Anne Sullivan

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.  Jack Kinder

They know enough who know how to learn.  Henry Adams

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.  Anonymous

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.  Harvey S. Firestone

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author and Nobel Prize winner

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

If learning is an act of exploration,
then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime ....

Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.  Lou Holtz

Technology: opening minds with a new set of keys.

True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it.
Jill Eggleton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton

What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?  Cicero

Adults are obsolete children.  Dr. Seuss

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know.  It's being able to differentiate between what you know
and what you don't.  Anatole Feance

You can’t teach what you don’t understand.  Susan Kovalik

Children have more need of models than of critics.  Carolyn Coats

You cannot control children by yelling any more than you can control a car with its horn.

If you’re not having fun, you’re not being the best teacher you can be.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
  Ignacio Estrada

 The highest result of education is tolerance.  Helen Keller

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.  Galileo

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.  Sophocles

They are able because they think they are able.  Vergil

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.   Mark Twain

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.   John Lubbock

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Education is nothing more, nor less, than learning to think!   Peter Facione

 Knowledge has an important property. When you give it away, you don't lose it.

The mind is like the stomach. It's not how much you put into it,
but how much it digests.  Albert Jay Nock

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.   Danish Proverb

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool
may ask more than the wisest man can answer.  Charles Caleb Colton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  T. H. Huxley

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

 Correction does much, but encouragement does more.  Goethe

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

Knowledge is of two kinds.  We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.  Sam Johnson

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb

Teaching is love made visible.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  Will Durant

 In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering,
the fourth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.  Ibn Gabirol, philosopher c.1022

 The secret of education is respecting the pupil.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions
in which they can learn.  Albert Einstein

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read
and write but the difference between right and wrong.   President Bush

Education is not a form of entertainment,
but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives.

We live at the level of our language.  Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read.
The rest is brainwashing. Ellen Gilcristre

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  Mark VanDoren

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
 Sir Winston Churchill

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.  James Thurber

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.  Aristotle

Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself.   Floyd Maxwell

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.   T. H. Huxley

Most students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid
to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment.   Sydney Harris

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education...
The human mind is our fundamental resource.   John F. Kennedy

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--
the power to tell the good from  the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and
 to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.  Samuel Johnsons

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.  Chinese proverb

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.  Galileo

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school
when their parents get involved in their learning.   William J. Bennett

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.  Confucius

To get new knowledge requires new questions.  John Evanson

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn
is in great danger!  Confucius

The best teachers are those that show you where to look
but don't tell you what tosee.Alexandra K. Trenfor

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;
cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.   Mark Twain

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.  John F. Kennedy

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes,
and that times change.   Gina Shapira

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, 
and no amount of exhortation or threats will bring it back.  John Holt

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world,
as one which enables him to sustain a failure.   Bernard Iddings Bellk

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do,
never does what he can do.  John Stuart Mill

A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.  Henry Adams

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.  Victor Hugo

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Alvin Toffler

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.  Chinese Proverb

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is
among elementary school youngsters than among college students.  Carl Sagan

Learn concepts, not methods.  A good mind devises its own methods.

Gold has a price, but learning is priceless.  Chinese Proverb

When one teaches, two learn. Robert Half

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.  Goethe

One must be a student before one can be a teacher.  Chinese Proverb

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  Frederick Douglass

Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes;
do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your  life.  Chinese Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.  Albert Schweitzer

Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous.
Chinese Proverb

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  Jacques Barzun

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you.  Richard Bach

Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.  Chinese Proverb

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.  The Talmud

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music,
for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.  Plato

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.  Gail Godwin

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  Thomas H. Huxley

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  John Dewey

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.  Aristotle

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow,
but the rainbow won't wait while you do  the work.   Patricia Clafford

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic
than to teach and instruct our youth.   Marcus T. Cicero

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can
create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.   Warren Bennis

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things,
not simply of repeating what other generations have done.  Jean Piaget

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say,
learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully.  Every word that is unnecessary
only pours over the side of a brimming mind.  Cicero

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.   Chinese Proverb

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn
by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindolls

They know enough who know how to learn.   Henry Brooks Adams

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool
may ask more than the wisest man can answer.   Charles Caleb Colton

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.
C. B. Neblette

What you see depends on what you thought before you looked.  Eugene Taurman

Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun.
They  keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.  Glenn Doman

The invention of I.Q. has done a great disservice to creativity in education.  Joel Hildebrand

Praise,like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.  Samuel  Butler

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud.  Samuel  Butler

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.  William A. Ward

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.  Dr. John G. Hibben

He who laughs most, learns best.  John Cleese

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.
To improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves,
rather than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.   Bill Beattie

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.   Sir Francis Bacon

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  Edward Everett

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.  Anthony Jay

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater.  Gail Godwin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann [Lily Tomlin]

All things are difficult before they are easy.  Thomas Fuller

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.  Stanislaw J. Lec.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.  Socrates

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.  L. Conway

The only reason I try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me
to forgive their children.   Life 3/7/65

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.Albert Einstein

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.  Jean Piaget

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him
and let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning
and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.  Leo Buscaglia

Once you get people laughing, they're listening.  Herbert Gardner

When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light
--you will never forget it.  Carl Sagan

There is no one way.  Tofu Roshi

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 a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.  Carl Jung

I never learned as much in the classroom as I did staring out a window and imagining things.
Robert Redford

Tiny children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun.
They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun. Glenn Doman

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.   Patrick White

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Gandhi

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.  Leonardo da Vinci

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.  Rachel Carson

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.  Anatole France

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate,
and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.  Louis L'Amour

Praise works with only three types of people: men, women and children.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is,
and respect for what he may become.  Louis Pasteur

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.  Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.   Samuel Johnson

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.  John W. Gardner

 Let early education be a sort of amusement,
you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child.  Plato

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.  Woodrow Wilson

Learning without thought is labor lost. Confucius

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kantt

 What you see depends on what you thought before you looked.  Eugene Taurmane

 Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.  Chuang-Tzu, philosopher

 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

 It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Don't worry that children are never listening to you.
Worry that they are always watching you.  Robert Fulghum

 All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity
to develop our talent.  John F. Kennedy

 Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

 The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins

 Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  Chinese Proverb

The freedom to make mistakes provides the best environment for creativity.

Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.  Anatole Franc

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.  German Proverb

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn, is in great danger.
Confucius

Nothing is overly hard if you divide it into small jobs.  Henry Ford

You cannot open a book without learning something.  Confucius

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.  Socrates