What do you need in order to raise happy children?

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework.”
Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]

“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
Richard David Bach

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Anonymous

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
Anonymous

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in
students.
John Ciardi

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is
the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an
A+ to a student who answered: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
(Louis) Hector Berlioz

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in
school.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how
much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and
what you don’t.
Anatole France

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a
preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of
young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education
not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task,
or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anna Garlin Spencer

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the
final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Annie Sullivan

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it
by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with
accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my
classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful.
Teaching cognitive skills is not enough…
Jean Medick

Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or
personal disposition alone can accomplish.
Sharon Feiman-Nemser

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers
and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing
civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest
honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
Lee Iacocca

Don’t set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds
of students with facts… it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and
always to think for themselves.
Robert Hutchins

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you
learned this afternoon.
Anonymous

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel.
Anonymous

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
Chinese Proverb

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made
School Boards.
Mark Twain

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams

Information cannot replace education.
Earl Kiole

We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.
Anonymous

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