Education is life itself.
Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.
There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him.
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.
There was no known cure for a Catholic education.
Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way. . . but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you. . . only knowledge.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
To be successful in life what you need is education.
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education. ' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.