Education and teachers Quotes

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is…

— Haim Ginott

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only…

— Henry Ford

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view…

— Abraham Lincoln

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

— Carl Rogers

Men learn while they teach.

— Seneca the Younger

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

— Vladimir Lenin

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

— William Arthur Ward

In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate…

— William Feather

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

— Plato

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

— Henry Ford

No one can take it away from you.

— B. B. King

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

— Maria Montessori

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

— John F. Kennedy

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

— Pierre de Coubertin

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

— Oprah Winfrey

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

— Tracy Kidder

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

— Paulo Freire

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

— William Arthur Ward

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

— George Bernard Shaw

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the…

— William Feather

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and…

— John Ruskin