Here are some interesting quotes:
(Most are from the fine library at
WisdomQuotes)
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Annie Sullivan
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Carl Rogers
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Dean William R. Inge
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Goethe
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Freedom and constraint are two sides of the same necessity - to be who one is and no other.
Antoine de St Exupery
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations
Patricia Neal
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical Saying
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas H. Huxley
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
Hodding Carter
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William E. Gladstone
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
Lou Ann Walker
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
To repeat what others have said requires education - to challenge it requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Lord Brougham
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Henry Ward Beecher
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein
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
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Education and the Social Order)
Bertrand Russell
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Helen Keller
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show. (When We Deal With Children)
Fritz Redl
