"Why should I reinvent the wheel?" My response is, "Because with online learning, we are trying to fly."

-- Patrick McCormick, Unknown , April 18, 2005

... life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

-- Alan Blinder (Princeton), Unknown , Unknown

...a slogan is a poor substitute for an understanding of educational principles and ...mastery of a procedure is a woefully insufficient guide to a new approach to teaching.

-- Richard Tiberius, "Problem-based learning" in Gillespie, K. H. (Ed.) A guide to faculty development. Anker Pub. p. 182, 2002

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educere, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with…I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

-- Martha Graham, Unknown , Unknown

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

-- Zeno of Elia, Unknown , Unknown

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage --and contribute to--the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 189, Unknown

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

-- W. Edwards Deming, Unknown , Unknown

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

-- Gascoigne, Unknown , Unknown

A college degree and a teaching certificate define a person as a teacher, but it takes hard work and dedication to be one.

-- Paul McClure, Unknown , Unknown

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

A good leader cannot get too far ahead of his followers.

-- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A good life lasts for generations.

-- A greeting card. The Borealis Press G-Line, Unknown , 1999.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

-- Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd, Unknown

A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

-- Thomas J. Carruthers, Unknown , Unknown

A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience's attention. Then he can teach his lesson.

-- Hendrik John Clarke, Unknown , Unknown

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

-- Nelson Mandela, Unknown , Unknown

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

-- The Rev. R. Inman, Unknown , Unknown

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

-- Jackie Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

-- James Monroe, Unknown , Unknown

A load of books does not equal one good teacher.

-- Chinese proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

-- Patricia Neale, Unknown , Unknown

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

-- John W. Gardner, Unknown , Unknown

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

-- Carolus Linnaeus, Unknown , 1707-1778

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

-- W. H. Auden, Unknown , Unknown

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

-- Max Gluckman, Unknown , Unknown

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

-- Henny Youngman, Unknown , Unknown

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

-- Lord Samuel Mancroft, Unknown , born July 27, 1914

A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.

-- Henry Brook Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, (1838-1918)

A teacher is a person who knows all the answers but only when she asks the questions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher is a very special person who uses his or her creativity and loving, inquiring mind to develop the rare talent of encouraging others to think, to dream, to learn, to try, to do!

-- Beverly Conklin, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

-- William Cowper, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher should know more than he teaches, and if he knows more than he teaches, he will teach more than he knows.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, Book II, Unknown

A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.

-- Susan Ohanian, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

A wise teacher makes learning a joy.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A zealous school reformer, wearied by jousting with the status quo, heard about a spiritualist who was able to make contact with the dear departed. So one evening, he went to one of her seances. And when his turn came, he asked her to make contact with John Dewey. After struggling for a while, she reached America's greatest philosopher. The reformer was thrilled. "Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, there is the natural way and the miraculous way. Which do you want?" The reformer, his idealism faltering, asked for the natural way. "The natural way," Dewey said, "Would be for God to send down bands of angels to visit every single public school and transform them into places of true learning." "Good heavens," gasped the reformer. "What then is the miraculous way?" "Ah," said Dewey, "The miraculous way would be for the people to do it themselves."

-- Unknown, http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/glomono.html, Unknown

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult….Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

-- Jim Brown and William Allan Kritsonis, Unknown , Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

-- Ovid, Epistoloe Ex Ponto. II. 9. 47., Unknown

All generalizations are false.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.

-- Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970

All work is empty save when there is love.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

-- Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who can take something you already know and make it sound confusing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

And the test of great teaching is not merely the dissection of truth. It can also be the ability and the willingness to package that truth and deliver it to the people who need it most.

-- James C. Howell, Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs: Saints and Their Stories. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books. p. 93, 1999

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

-- Dale Carnegie, Unknown , Unknown

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

-- Bliss Perry, Unknown , Unknown

Anything could happen, now that I was no longer focused on my own importance at the center of the stage....I had been released from my expertise and was now another reader in a sea of limitless possibility.

-- William A. Reinsmith, Beginner's Mind. in College Teaching, 48(1). p. 12-14., Unknown

Appeal to reason in your advertising and you appeal to 4% of the human race.

-- Advice given at a 1923 conference on advertising., Unknown , Unknown

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

-- Noam Chomsky, Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

Aspire to Inspire before you Expire

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

-- Robert Cialdini, quoted in Jaffe, E. "Those who can, teach." APS Observer, 17(9), p. 22, 2004

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

-- Kyong Ho, (1849-1912), Unknown

Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

-- Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, Unknown

Be different--if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

-- Ed Koch, Unknown , 1996

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

-- Martin Haberman, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed are those who are flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Both teaching and rational inquiry, at their creative and inspired best, thus lead us to the very threshold of ultimate mystery and induce in us a sense of profound humility and awe.

-- Theodore Meyer Greene, Unknown , Unknown

But the great Master said, ‘I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach.’

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Singers, Unknown

Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect.

-- Howard Ogden, Unknown , Unknown

Causes of violence: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principles.

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.

-- Batman Costume warning, Unknown , Unknown

Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

-- King Whitney, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

-- George Farquhar, Unknown , Unknown

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

-- James Baldwin, Unknown , Unknown

Common to all staff was a conviction that they could have done better outside education. The teachers believed in a mysterious world outside the school called "business" where money was handed out freely.

-- Michael Green, The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship, Unknown

Confidence is the mother of incentive.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, May 4, 1995

Context is always as relevant as concept.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

Cover less, uncover more.

-- possibly Bland Tomkinson, Unknown , Unknown

Crawling still gets you there.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

-- Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown

Damn my own folly for having lavished my hard earned knowledge and the treasure of my regard and intimacy on a heartless guttersnipe.

-- Unknown , Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", Unknown

Demo. Do. Discuss.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Description of a grade: An inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite material.

-- P. Dressel, p. 12 "Grades: One more tilt at the windmill." in A.W. Chickering (Ed.), Bulletin. Memphis: Memphis State U. Center for the Study of Higher Education, Dec. 1983

Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

Do not judge others, and God will not judge you...The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.

-- Luke 6:37-38, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

-- Horace, Carmina. IV. 4. 33., Unknown

Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.

-- Nathanial Emmons, Unknown , Unknown

Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.

-- Olde rabbinical saying, Unknown , Unknown

Don't presume that I will respond in a logical or rational manner.

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

Dr. Lionel Gift was well aware that he could teach this class, and even entertain and please the customers, with no thought whatsoever. What he was saying to them now was like a television program on another channel that he could switch to whenever he wanted, just to see that it was still on, just to see that he, the talking head, was still adhering to the script. Somewhat more often, he checked the audience. Heads down, pencils moving, the occasional nod, all the way back to the last rows. It touched him, it really did, the imparting of knowledge, the initiation of a whole new group of customers into the domain of truth.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 143, 1995

Each new change grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

-- Hal Borland, Unknown , Unknown

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

-- E. C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

Education is not [the] filling [of] a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

-- William.Butler Yeats, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

-- Hannah Arendt, Unknown , 1906-1975

Education not as sudden as a massacre, but more deadly in the long run.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

-- Malcolm S. Forbes, Unknown , Unknown

Even a professor soon discovers how little he knows when a child begins asking questions.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

-- Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell), Unknown , born May 18, 1872

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every September is like Christmas, and every student, a surprise gift to open.

-- Mary Vissilikou Bicouvaris, 1989 United States Teacher of the Year, Unknown , Unknown

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.

-- Frances E. Willard, What America Owes to Women, 1893

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , born July 10, 1871

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

-- Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying, (1854-1900)

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.

-- Irish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

-- Flannery O'Connor, Unknown , Unknown

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

-- Charles Caleb Colton, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence can be attained if you -Care more often than others think wise. -Risk more often than others think is safe. -Dream more often than others think is practical. -Expect more than others think is possible.

-- Janet Cagery, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790

Facing up to your mistakes keeps you from repeating them. Successful people make plenty of mistakes but hardly ever the same one twice.

-- Debra A. Benton, Lions Don't Need to Roar. Warner Books, 1993

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

-- J. Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

-- W.C. Sellar &d R.J. Yeatman, Unknown , Unknown

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

-- II Timothy 4: 3-4, New Revised Standard Version Bible, Unknown

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

-- C.W. Ceran, Unknown , Unknown

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

-- Paul Robeson, As reported by Harry Belefonte in World Citizenship Award Acceptance Speech, 2003

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.

-- Zenna Schaffer, Unknown , Unknown

Given particular subject matter or a particular concept, it is easy to ask trivial questions or to lead the child to ask trivial questions. It is also easy to ask impossibly difficult questions. The trick is to find the medium questions that can be answered and take you somewhere. This is the big job of teachers and textbooks.

-- David Page, Unknown , Unknown

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 66., 1995

Good teachers cost a lot, but poor teachers cost a lot more.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

-- S. I. Hayakawa, Unknown , Unknown

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.

-- Gail Godwin, The Odd Woman, Ballantine Books, 1995

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

He prayed—it wasn’t my religion. He ate—it wasn’t what I ate. He spoke—it wasn’t my language. He dressed—it wasn’t what I wore. He took my hand—it wasn’t the color of mine. But when he laughed—it was how I laughed, and when he cried—it was how I cried

-- Amy Maddox, age 16, Franklin Community High School. Bargersville, IN, "Underneath we're all the same", Unknown

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists, (1856-1950)

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, He is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not, He is a child, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, He is asleep, wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise, follow him.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gassett, Meditations on Quixote, 1914

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , born November 30, 1874

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.

-- Aaron Elkins, Unknown , Unknown

Hope is the most precious treasure to a person.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

-- Hannah More, 1745-1833, "On Dissipation," Essays on Various Subjects…for Young Ladies, 1777

How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

-- Luke 6:26, Unknown , Unknown

How to be a good teacher: Teach the basic subject. Have an atmosphere conducive to learning. Hold the student accountable for progress. Have performance standards.

-- Colonel Patrick Harrington, USMC, Unknown , Unknown

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-- Anne Frank, Unknown , Unknown

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

-- T.S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I am a part of all whom I have met.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

I am afraid that too often our preachers entirely ignore what we, the silent faithful, expect to hear in a sermon...They address us as rebels whom they must subdue, as idlers whom they must shake up; as hardened sinners whom they must needs terrify; as the proud who require to be humiliated; as the self-satisfied who need to be disquieted..(They) are never done telling us of our duties and of our neglect of duty...The thing which is really difficult...is to give us a taste for our duties, and to awaken in us a wish to do them and to be generous in the doing.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

I am not a teacher--only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you.

-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married", Unknown

I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.

-- A.N. Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

I am teaching…It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

-- Anne Sexton, Unknown , Unknown

I believe that teaching is one of the most delightful and exciting of all human activities when it is done well and that it is one of the most humiliating and tedious when it is done poorly.

-- Paul Ramsden, Unknown , Unknown

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

-- attributed to Socrates, Unknown , Unknown

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.

-- Patrick White, Unknown , Unknown

I fully realize that I have not succeeded in answering all of your questions…Indeed, I feel I have not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole new set of questions, which only lead to more problems, some of which we weren’t even aware were problems. To sum it all up…In some ways I feel we are confused as ever, but I believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.

-- E.B. White, Unknown , Unknown

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

-- B. Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

I mistrust all systemisers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1895

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.

-- Dr Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976

I never did very well in math--I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

-- Calvin Trillin, Unknown , Unknown

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

-- Catherine the Great, attributed, 1729-1796

I should…prefer the broad daylight of a respectable school to the solitude and obscurity of a private education. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

-- Quintilian, Unknown , ca 35 AD-ca 100

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

-- Bessie Delany, Unknown , Unknown

I touch the future. I teach.

-- Christa McAuliffe, Unknown , Unknown

I was certainly overpaid as a teacher but I was ludicrously underpaid as a babysitter.

-- J. Osborne, Unknown , Unknown

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

-- e e cummings, Unknown , Unknown

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Unknown , 1943-

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers--teachers with very loud voices.

-- George Lucas, Unknown , Unknown

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

-- Donald D. Quinn, Unknown , Unknown

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

-- Howard Gardner, "The Academic Community Must Not Shun the Debate Over How to Set National Educational Goals" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Nov. 1989

If I had one piece of advice for first-year teachers, I'd tell them to give themselves credit for what they do right and to remember that inspiring in students an excitement about learning is no small thing.

-- Julie Olin Schulz, Unknown , Unknown

If in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.

-- J.F. Boyse, Tales from Hoffman, Unknown

If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.

-- Ken Hill, Unknown , Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

-- Sir John Lubbock, Unknown , Unknown

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

-- FMEA, Stamatis, Unknown , Unknown

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

-- Stanley Kubrick, Unknown , born July 26, 1928

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

-- Truman's Law, Unknown , Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you don't inspect i, you might as well not expect it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.

-- Kuan Chung, Unknown , Unknown

If you rest, you rust.

-- Helen Hayes, My Life in Three Acts, 1990

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.

-- J. F. Boyse, Unknown , Unknown

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

-- Publius Terentius Afer, Unknown , Unknown

In music we gain a sense of rhythm through the absence of sound. A similar process occurs in communication between two people.

-- Sheldon Roth, Unknown , Unknown

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

-- Shunru Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill Pub., April 1, 1973

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown

In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Information can’t be put in any container that isn’t leaky.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

-- Nomi Whalen, Unknown , born 1932

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

-- Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education, Unknown

Interacting with all students during a lesson is the best way to find out how they're doing.

-- David Flaglois and Charlotte Rappe Zales, Unknown , Unknown

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, Unknown , Unknown

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchance of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, 1. [59], 1596-8

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

-- R.D. Hitchcock, Unknown , Unknown

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch, 1871-2

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, Unknown , Unknown

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

It is in the shelter of each other that people live.

-- Irish proverb, Unknown , Unknown

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses. IV. 428, Unknown

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not important to be the best…just do your best.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

-- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Unknown , Unknown

It is not strange...to mistake change for process.

-- Millard Fillmore, Unknown , Unknown

It is our prayer that our students go out into the world with the strength, not only to survive, but to remain beautiful human beings.

-- Cole Glen, Unknown , Unknown

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

It isn't what you know but the simple things you don't overlook.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

-- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Persuasion, 1818

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught.

-- Oscar Hammerstein, "The King and I", 1956

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's more fun to color outside the lines.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's not teaching that causes learning. Attempts by the learner to perform cause learning, dependent upon the quality of the feedback and opportunities to use it.

-- Grant Wiggins, AAHE Bulletin, 50 (3), p. 7, 1997

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

-- Linda Conway, Unknown , Unknown

It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world.

-- Gay Luce, Unknown , Unknown

It's only November, but my brain is full.

-- Unknown undergraduate cited by Anne Matthews, Bright College Years, 1997

Lack of motivation is sometimes born of lack of achievement.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, April 1., 1995

Laurence Houseman once said, "A saint is one who makes goodness attractive." Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

-- John Trimble, Unknown , Unknown

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , 1799

Let every sluice of knowledge be open and set a-flowing.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

-- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Unknown

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson, author of seminal Economics text and winner of Nobel Prize in economics., 20th century