Education Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational…

— Howard G. Hendricks

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for…

— Sivananda

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He…

— Terry Pratchett

He is the best teacher who makes his pupil suffer the most.

— Vikrant Parsai

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced…

— William Godwin

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

— Horace Mann

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally…

— John Dewey

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life.…

— William James

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he…

— John Dewey

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

— Juvenal

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

— David Ausubel