Educational Quotes

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One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I… — Paulo Freire
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct… — Paulo Freire
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that… — Paulo Freire
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that… — Paulo Freire
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If nobody loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,… — William James
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life — William James
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature. — William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into… — William James
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects… — William James
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total. — William James
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes… — William James
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these… — William James

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