“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." -George Bernard Shaw
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre." -Gail Goldwin
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils." -Ever Garrison
“Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education…to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher." -John Adams
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates
“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
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." -Joseph Addison
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." -Confucius
“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults." -Abraham Lincoln
“Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be." -Rita Pierson
“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." -Jim Rohn
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -William A. Ward
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey
“A mind when stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." -Anonymous
“Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." -William Butler Yeats
“The best way to predict your future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." -Margaret Mead
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding." -William Arthur Ward
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done." -Jean Piaget
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner
“There is no friend as loyal as a book." -Ernest Hemingway
“Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give." -Maya Angelou
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener." -Robert Frost
“Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!"-George Carlin
“A child mis-educated is a child lost." -John F. Kennedy
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget." -Alfred Mercier
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." -B.B. King
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher" -Japanese Proverb
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein
“The hardest thing to teach is how to care." -Unknown
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela
"Ask questions. Question answers." -Unknown
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever." -Walt Disney
“Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit." -Mary Lou Retton
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." -Veronica A. Shoffstall
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." -Dr. Seuss
“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
“Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -Walt Disney
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." -Chinese Proverb
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin
“Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." -Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship." -Aeschylus
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