education quotations compiled by: jeffrey pommerville, ph.d. glendale community college 2009

Education Quotations

Compiled by:

Jeffrey Pommerville, Ph.D.Glendale Community College

2009

Education QuotationsCompiled by Jeffrey Pommerville, Glendale Community College, 2009

Parker J. Palmer

Most of us go into teaching not for fame or fortune

but because of a passion to connect.


Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986)

I touch the future.I teach.


K. Patricia Cross

Passive leaningis an oxymoron;

there is no such thing.


Lily Tomlin (as Edith Ann)

I like a teacherwho gives you something

to take home to think aboutbesides homework.


Mitch Albom

(Tuesdays with Morrie)

Have you ever had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw

but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished

to a proud shine?


A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947)

. . . above all things we must beaware of what I will call inert

'ideas' ‑ that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind

without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.


Chinese proverb

I hear and I forget.I see and I believe.

I do and I understand.


Mary Hatwood Futrell

When the uncapped potentialof a student

meets the liberating art of a teacher,

a miracle unfolds.


Cracking the SAT II (1999)

. . . we'll show you that you don't really have to understand anything . . . .When we get through, you may not really understand much . . . But you don't have to, and we'll prove it.


Lao Tzu (c. 600 B.C.E)

To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend to know when you do not know

is disease.


Wilbert J. McKeachie

Professors known asoutstanding lecturers

do two things; they use a simple planand many examples.


Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E)

Teaching isthe highest form

of understanding.


Cameron Beatty

Teaching:the earth doesn't move

every time,but when it does,what a RUSH!


The Tao of Teaching

A good teacher is better than

a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings.


William Glasser

Effective teaching may bethe hardest job there is.


Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

A true journey lies notin seeking new shores

but in finding new eyes.


Max Forman

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get

as little as he can for his money.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Setting an exampleis not the main means

of influencing another,it is the only means.


Parker J. Palmer

Children [and students] may forget what you say,

but they’ll never forget how you make them feel.


Mark Twain (Satchel Page?)

It's not what you don't know that will hurt you. It's what you think you know

that just ain't so.


A. N. Whitehead (1861-1957)

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of

subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not

illumed with any spark of vitality.


Unknown

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, if

you study to understand, you will remember.


Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Most people would sooner diethan think;

in fact, they do so.


Anonymous

Memorization is what we resort to

when what we are learningmakes no sense.


K. Patricia Cross

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.

The tough problem is not in identifying winners:

it is in making winners out of ordinary people.


William Arthur Ward

The mediocre teacher tells.The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.


Mark Van Doren (1894-1973)

The art of teachingis the art of

assisting discovery.


Barbara Harrell Carson

Students learnwhat they care about,

from people they care aboutand who, they know,care about them . . .


Malcom S. Forbes (1919-1990)

Education's purpose is toreplace an empty mind

with an open one.


John Dewey (1859-1952)

We only think when we are confronted

with a problem.


K. Patricia Cross

Learning is . . . an active, dynamic process in which the connections are

constantly changing and the structure reformatted.


James Bryce (1838-1922)

To most people nothing is more troublesomethan the effort of thinking.


Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

The most extraordinary thingabout a really good teacheris that he or she transcends

accepted educational methods.


Edmund Burke (1787-1848)

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to

the method of investigation is incomparably the best.


UNESCO

Teaching is the world's most important job.


Mari Evans

Education is the jewel casting brillianceinto the future.


George Givot (1903-1984)

Those who go to collegeand never get out

are called professors.


Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

You cannot teach a mananything; you can only help him

discover it in himself.


Henry B. Adams (1838-1918)

Nothing in educationis so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form

of inert facts.


Thomas Carruthers

A teacher isone who makes himself

progressively unnecessary.


Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Those who know how to think need no teachers.


Anonymous

The secret of teachingis to appear to have known

all your lifewhat you just learned

this morning.


Anonymous

A teacher's purposeis not to create students

in his own image, but to develop students

who can createtheir own image.


R. Fielder & R. Brent

Much of what happensin most classes

is a waste of everyone’s time.It is neither teaching

nor learning.It is stenography.


Anonymous

Teaching should befull of ideasinstead of

stuffed with facts.


Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

The best teacheris the one who suggestsrather than dogmatizes,and inspires his listener

with the wish to teach himself.


Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year . . .

for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the

soul of the boy sitting next to me.


Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

To teach is to learn twice over.


Steve Allen (1921-2000)

To educate . . . does not mean merely to inject with knowledge

but to help to master the process of investigating

what knowledge is for.


Henry B. Adams (1838-1918)

A teacher affects eternity;he can never tell

where his influence stops.


Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)

Knowledge is not gained bynumerous narratives

but through following knowledge and using it.


Paul Eggen & June Main

Science is viewed as an active process of developing ideas, or 'storybuilding,' rather than as

static bodies of already-existing knowledge to be passed on to

students.


Robert Frost (1874-1963)

College is a refugefrom hasty judgment.


Clyde Freeman Herreid

It had never struck me until this point that the undergraduate

experience with its lectures and labs where you are told what to do and

what to learn was—there is no other way to say it—crippling.


Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.)

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them

think.


Anonymous

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.


Derek Bok

If you think education is expensive,

try ignorance.


Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

The [person] who can make hard things easy

is the educator.


Sir James Dewar (1842-1923)

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.


Plutarch (c. 46-120)

Education is not the filling of a bucket.

It is the lighting of a fire.


Chinese proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.


Heraclitus (c. 500 B.C.E.)

Much learning does not teach understanding.


Horace Mann (1796-1859)

The teacher who is attempting to teach

without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn

is hammering on cold iron.


Charles Handy

The Maori Language, I am told, uses the same word for teaching

and learning. Perhaps they know something that

we have forgotten.

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