Educator Quotes · Page 3

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

— Ida B. Wells

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

— Edwin Moses

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

— Philip Selznick

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators…

— Robert Winston

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original…

— Philip Wylie

There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun…

— Kurt Squire

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several…

— Neil Postman

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be…

— Charlotte Mason

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an…

— Christa McAuliffe

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold…

— Henry Giroux

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At…

— Thomas Sowell

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more…

— Thomas Moore

It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the…

— Henry Giroux

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from…

— Neale Donald Walsch

An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by…

— Bertrand Russell

“Experience alone, that supreme educator of peoples, will be at pains to show us our mistake. It alone will be powerful enough…

— Gustave Le Bon

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally…

— C. S. Lewis

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

— Margaret Spellings

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

— Anonymous

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

— Bryant H. McGill

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

— Will Richardson

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

— James D. Watson

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

— Kathy Ireland

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

— David Elliott

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

— Derek Bok

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

— Bruce Lee

My mom is a public educator, and so teaching is sort of ingrained in me, in a way.

— Ariana DeBose

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator…

— Trey Parker

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

— Carl Jung

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working…

— Johan Huizinga

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

— Peter Diamandis