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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in

pursuit of the child.


George Bernard Shaw
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and
wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverb
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more
than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
William Arthur Ward
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
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dont just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach
them to question everything!
George Carlin
A child mis-educated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher
Japanese Proverb
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by
creating curiosity he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another
time.
Chinese Proverb

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