Anything Quote by Ellen Key

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

— Maria Montessori

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

— Temple Grandin

The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal…

— John Swett

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher,…

— Maria Montessori

I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in…

— John Dewey

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when…

— Helen Keller

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as…

— Charlotte Mason

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

— Ignacio Estrada

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

— Charles E. McKenzie

“Many parents as well as teachers refuse to place this responsibility upon children for fear of the mistakes that they will make. On account…

— Frank Morton McMurry