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  • I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates
  • Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration, and environment. - Jean Huston
  • When I think about all the crap I learned in high school . . . it's a wonder I can think at all. - Paul Simon

  • The desire to know is far more important than achievement and/or performance measures. - Caine & Caine

  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge - Albert Einstein
  • I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult. - E. B. White
  • That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing
  • Pick Battles big enough to matter, small enough to win - Jonathon Kozol
  • Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible - Maya Angelou
  • The teacher is one who made two ideas grow where only one grew before - Elbert Hubbard
  • The man who can make hard things easy is the educator - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students - Alfie Kohn
  • It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail - Albert Einstein
  • One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Maria Montessori
  • Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. - Jonathan Kozol, American educator and author (1936 - )
  • Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But after due examination and analysis, you find to be to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. - Gautama Buddha
  • The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. - Cicero
  • I hate quotations. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle
  • Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community. - Claire Aumonier
  • Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. - W B Yeats
  • The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. - A S Neill
  • If little else, the brain is an educational toy. - Tom Robbins
  • Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' - Terry Prachett
  • The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins
  • What scupture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry B. Adams
  • 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
  • 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
  • Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams
  • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela
  • Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. - Richard Bach
  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
  • It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read quotations. - Winston Churchill
  • If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spanish poet, 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1881-1958)
  • Tear down the wall! - Pink Floyd (from "The Wall")
  • More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. - Jonathan Kozol, American educator and author (1936 - )

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