57 Famous Quotes On Education, Teaching, Schooling And Knowledge

If you are interested in education, knowledge, schools and more, you will find Sir Ken Robinson’s outlines of 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish – and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” they now face, and how to nurture their youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

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As the saying goes, a teacher can either inspire or demotivate a student, a good teacher makes the student think and question, whereas a bad educator simply makes learning dreadful. However, the teacher is just part of a bigger puzzle, there are other factors too, such as environment, family, classroom, social and more.

At the end of the day, learning is all about opening up their minds, it teaches us to question and explore the impossible. Remember this, every student is different, and each has their own learning ability and speed. Expecting every student to perform the same by comparing them is like expecting the entire class of students to grow up and be a doctor.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

When educating the minds of their youth, they must not forget to educate their hearts. – Dalai Lama

You can’t teach a person anything, you can help him find it within himself. – Galileo Galilei

The secret of education lies in respecting the students. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

School is the path, not the point. – Will Richardson

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive. – Sir Terrance Conran

Many children struggle in schools… because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn. – Peter Senge

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson. – Tony Wagner

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. – Swami Vivekananda

Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time. – Hebrew Proverb

Many of their schools are good schools if only this were 1965. – Louise Stoll and Dean Fink

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a child of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. – Seymour Papert

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach. – Don Tapscott

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. – David Warlick

Our current expectations for what their students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. They now have an economy based on knowledge and technology. – Bill Gates

The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively. – John G. Palfrey and ‎Urs Gasser

We want their students to be the students they want to teach. – David Warlick

The illiterate of the 21st century won’t be those who can’t read & write but those who can’t learn unlearn & relearn – Alvin Toffler

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff. – Alan Kay

If they teach today as they taught yesterday, then they rob their children of tomorrow. – John Dewey

Television didn’t transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside of the classroom. – John G. Palfrey and ‎Urs Gasser

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. – Paulo Coelho

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin

Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way.

If a child can’t learn the way they teach, maybe they should teach the way they learn. – Ignacio Estrada

Teachers who loves teaching teach children to love learning.

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. – Alexandra K. Trenfor

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B.B. King

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. – Daniel J. Boorstin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Edith Ann

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then give a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. – Tom Bodett

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom! – Oprah Winfrey

Once you stop learning, you start dying. – Albert Einstein

The objective of education is learning, not teaching.

You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help him find it within himself. – Galileo Galilei

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

The future of the world is in my classroom today. – Ivan Welton Fitzwater

A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart.

Kids don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees. If your plan is for 100 years, educate children. – Confucius

What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger

If they teach today’s students as they taught yesterday’s, they rob them of tomorrow. – John Dewey

Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. – John C. Maxwell

Teachers who love teaching teach children to loves learning.

Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more. – Loris Malaguzzi

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Steve Jobs On The Problem With Education

In a 1996 interview with Wired, Jobs explains his position: “I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.

It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy.”