Friday, July 31, 2009

Education Quotes

I thought I would post some guotes that I have seen over time. I write them down in a notebook so I can always have them. What do you think.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
-- Deborah Meier

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
-- George Evans

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-- Plato

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
-- Anonymous

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Anonymous

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
-- Joseph Campbell

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
-- Chinese Proverb

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
-- Marva Collins

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry B. Adams

2 comments:

  1. I like your quotes. I may have to barrow a couple of them. Thanks for joining my blogs. Bea

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  2. Hey Alberta! Great work here on your blog. This is an awesome quotes section. I think I'm with Bea here, and I might have to steal some of these. Very cool section, great work! Thanks for sharing. _Rachel

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