Educational Quotes

• 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.
• Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.        Chinese Proverb
• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.                                                                                                                                         George Bernard Shaw

• We’re trying to give the young people something that can help them, and we don’t know exactly what it ought to be.                                                                                                   Wendell Berry

• Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.                                                                                      Colleen Wilcox

• Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.         Anonymous

• The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.” Dan Rather

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.                                           Gail Goldwin

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

• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.                                             Jacques Barzun

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.                                                  William Butler Yeats