Teacher Quotes

"Education is something which ought to be brought within the reach of everyone."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time."

J. Krishnamurti

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

Maria Montessori

"The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind."

Maria Montessori

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

John Dewey

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

Bill Nye

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them."

Carl Sagan

"The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

Jean Piaget

"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."

Anne Sullivan

"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is being educated."

Edith Hamilton

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

Marian Wright Edelman

"Students are alive, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Mark Twain

"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."

John Ruskin

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter Brougham

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men."

Horace Mann

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

"Kids don't learn from people they don't like."

Rita Pierson

"Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if September 5th is observed as Teachers' Day."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan