Teaching/Education Quotes
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." Henry Brooks Adams
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." Amos Bronson Alcott
"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most." Matthew Arnold
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
(Louis) Hector Berlioz
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." Henry Peter Brougham
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
Peter Cochrane
"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." Bishop Creighton
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." John Cotton Dana
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance." Will Durant
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school." Albert Einstein
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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