Contradiction Quote by Paulo Freire

“What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ”

— Lorrie Moore

“If you are only a teacher but not a student, then you are incomplete; if you are only a student but not a teacher,…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that…

— David Guterson

“Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest…

— Amit Ray

“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the parent and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

— Sidney Sugarman

“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.”

— Bryant McGill

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a…

— Jay L. Garfield

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't…

— Robert Sternberg

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

— Roberto Calasso

“Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.”

— Israelmore Ayivor