TEACHER SOL: Education Quotes 5

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Education Quotes 5

Children need models rather than critics.-- Joseph Joubert

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.--Amos Bronson Alcott

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone-- Marian Wright Edelman

Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions.-- D.T. Max

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.-- Abraham Lincoln

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.-- John Bradshaw

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.--Linda Conway

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.-- Albert Einstein

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it.-- Soren Kierkegaard