Bases Quote by John Dewey

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

— Kinky Friedman

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child…

— Ellen Key

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless…

— Maria Montessori

“Unfortunately, it is difficult to do this under contemporary living arrangements, in which children go to school and then return to corrupting influences in…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence…

— Jeffrey Benson

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

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

— Maria Montessori

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

— Maria Montessori

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has…

— John Taylor Gatto

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be…

— Maria Montessori

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