Education Quotes

"We must learn to think as well as to memorize."

"Teaching by telling is the least effective form of instruction."

"A child's sense of incompleteness is actually the beginning of learning."

"To teach is to make something new possible."

"Education is not the filling of empty vessels but the ignition of sparks."

"The learner must be active, not passive, in the construction of understanding."

"The child is competent before the child is aware of being competent."

"We learn not just with our minds but with our entire being."

"The effective teacher makes the difficult seem simple without making it empty."

"The spiral of learning ascends through revisiting, deepening, and expanding."

"The purpose of education is to make the student capable of learning on their own."

"Teaching is the art of making the invisible visible."

"A curriculum should move from the concrete to the abstract."

"To make something possible is to have taught something important."

"The learner must develop a sense of agency - a feeling that they can affect their own learning."

"We teach not facts but ways of thinking about facts."

"Education at its best enables a person to discover what they truly care about."

"The fundamental responsibility of education is to help learners develop their capacity for wonder."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

"In the degree to which the teacher succeeds in getting inside the pupils' heads, he succeeds in awakening their intellectual interest."

"The school is the last and the best answer to the social question."

"Education without experiment and investigation is dogma."

"The individual who is to be educated is a social individual, and society is made of individuals."

"I believe that nature, both within and without, has resources which education can tap and train."

"The moral and intellectual structure of societies becomes apparent in its schools."

"The test of the value of a education is the degree to which it creates a desire for further education."

"There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education."

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child is what we should want for all the children of the community."

"The office of the teacher is not to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but to aid him in developing his own power."