Character Quote by Robert Baden-Powell

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an…

— Andre Maurois

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach…

— Julian Treasure

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of…

— David O. McKay

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

— Deborah Meier

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

— Fernando Haddad

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

— Don Meyer

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere…

— William George Jordan

Education has for its object the formation of character.

— Herbert Spencer

“Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and…

— Asa Don Brown

I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have…

— Thomas Eakins