Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your...

What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with...

watch out for schools that promise your kids will “experience success.” I’m teaching Plato’s Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

Before I started (college), that’s the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject…his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire...

The word “education” comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s...

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing...

You can’t make me be nice.You can’t make me be good.You can’t make me believe.But your example, your kindness, your patience and love will affect me perhaps enough that eventually I may choose to do...

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester...

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again)...

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

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The old saying that, “you are what you eat” extends beyond the body, and includes experiences.

People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don’t know.

Life is a practice. When you ‘fail,’ you can immediately begin practicing again.

You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.

Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she...

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Mengajar adalah semacam pertunjukan yang harus menarik.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal,...

Having someone teaching our infielders who has learned from someone as respected as Perry Hill, that means a lot.

… because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, “You feel what, Tiny?”.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways....

The lesson we are teaching citizens is somehow we don’t have to listen to the courts. This is disrespectful to Judge Hamilton, the judicial system and the Bill of Rights.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

An essential part of teachingis to show how to enjoy learning.

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference betweenTwo methods of composing: A, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet’s mind,A testing of performing words, while heIs soaping a third...

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn’t feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it’s trying to protect you.

Maybe you are a pig and don’t even know it.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr’s sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately,...

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!

We don’t teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God’s boss.

You have the power to motivate and inspire. Let your enthusiasm shine.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart....

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.