Educational Quotes
A teacher affects eternity;
no one can tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
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Prejudices, it is well-known, are most difficult to eradicate from
the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by
education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Brontë
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If you promise not to believe everything your child
says happens at this school, I’ll promise not to
believe everything he says happens at home.
Note to students’ parents from an English schoolmaster
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
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In the first place, God made idiots.
That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Cicero
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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 do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up
a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
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What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger
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Children love to learn, but hate to be taught.
Anonymous
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The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be
burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for
freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The object of teaching a child is
to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.
Howard G. Hendricks
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home
part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Edgar W. Howe
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
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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.
This is the first lesson to be learned.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
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Reading and writing, arithmetic, and grammar
do not constitute education, any more than
a knife, fork, and spoon constitute a dinner.
John Lubbock
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Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Foubert
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility
upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are
those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
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I have never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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I find that a great part of the information I have was
acquired by looking up something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
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What the pupils want to learn is as important as
what the teachers want to teach.
Lois E. LeBar
