Educator Quotes
162 quotes by 138 authors
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A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is…
— David Cerone
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The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher…
— Edward Bernays
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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
— Lynne Cheney
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Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
— Rudolf Steiner
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine…
— Gilbert Murray
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Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
— Diane Ravitch
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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
— Utah Phillips
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great…
— Ernst Mayr
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual…
— Marina Warner
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
— Maria Montessori
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt…
— Paulo Freire
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Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams,…
— Paulo Freire
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Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
— Alfie Kohn
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A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many…
— Charlotte Mason
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We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage…
— Malcolm Knowles
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When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business…
— Larry R. Thompson
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The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining…
— Philip Wylie
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Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature…
— Richard Louv
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Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business…
— Roy H. Williams
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The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.
— Randy Pausch
Who Wrote These Educator Quotes
138 authors contributed a total of 162 Educator Quotes, led by these top contributors: