"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

Always remember: it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

-- Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994), Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, 1976

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 give me a fish you have fed me for a day. If you teach me to fish you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline is seized for development But if you teach me to organise! then whatever the challenges I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our solution.

-- Friends of Same - East Timor, flyer, Unknown , 15 Aug 2004

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

Let us always be open to the miracle of the second chance.

-- Rev. David Stier, Unknown , Unknown

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

-- James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1817

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

-- Annette Funicello, Unknown , Unknown

Life IS a multiple choice test, only we first have to think up the possible choices, of which there are at a large, if not infinite number for each problem, and then we must choose among them.

-- Mike Chejlava, Unknown , Unknown

Life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, words and deeds return to us--sooner or later--with astounding accuracy.

-- Florence Shinn, Unknown , Unknown

Little things affect little minds.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Look at the footprints you've made.

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

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Math is fun when you're counting jellybeans.

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

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos’d as things forgot.

-- Alexander Pope, Essays on Criticism. Pt. III. L. 15., Unknown

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

-- Mrs. H. O. Ward, Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home Culture, 1878

Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.

-- Talmud: Ta'anith, 7b, Unknown , Unknown

My greatest satisfaction comes when my students find the success they never thought they could have.

-- Addie Rhodes Lee, Unknown , Unknown

My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

-- Henny Youngman, Unknown , Unknown

My ideas on teaching and learning focus on small 'd' democratic values, by which I mean a respect for diversity, a respect for the potential of each individual person, a respect for opposing points of view, and a respect for considerable intellectual vigor. My concern is with how students become critical thinkers and problem solvers, which is what a democratic society needs.

-- Deborah Willen Meier, Unknown , Unknown

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

-- Leopold Fechtner, Unknown , Unknown

My worst moments have been in the classroom; I persevere because my best moments have been there, too.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

-- Nick Diamos, Unknown , Unknown

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people-- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

-- Barbara Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Never underestimate your power to change yourself: never overestimate your power to change others.

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , born December 21, 1804

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

-- Sir William Osler, Osler the Teacher, Unknown

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

-- Paul Dickson, Unknown , Unknown

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

No matter how often you use the same brushes and paints, each canvas will be different.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 19., 1995

No one ever has it "all together." That's like trying to eat "once and for all."

-- Marilyn Grey, Unknown , Unknown

No one rises to low expectations.

-- Les Brown, Unknown , Unknown

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

-- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Unknown , Unknown

No speech can be entirely bad if it is short.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

-- Arthur Koestler, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

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

Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it: "Nam non solum scire aliquid artis est, sed quaedam ars etiam docendi."

-- Cicero, DeLegibus, Unknown

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing holds back progress more effectively than good teaching.

-- Washburn, Unknown , 1982

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

o truly enjoy... [a university], the individual--student or faculty--must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship…both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

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

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

-- Lao Tzu, Unknown , Unknown

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

-- Henny Youngman, Unknown , Unknown

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

-- Claude Debussy, Unknown , Unknown

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

-- Joycelyn Elders, New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1994

Once you decide you have nothing else to learn, you have nothing else to teach.

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

One of the most important trips a person can make is that involved in meeting the other person halfway.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life is laughter.

-- Joseph Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

Only the brave should teach….Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

-- Pearl S. Buck, Unknown , Unknown

Only the lesson which is enjoyed can be learned well.

-- Talmud, Unknown , Unknown

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

-- Bennett Cerf, Unknown , born May 25, 1898

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

-- Theophile Gautier, Unknown , 1858

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

-- Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Unknown , Unknown

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

-- André Maurois, News summaries, 1950, January 30

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People need 1) someone to care for; 2) something to do; 3) something to hope for.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People populate the world. Teachers civilize it.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, December 1, Unknown

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

-- Larisa Kuznetssova, Unknown , Unknown

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

Professor: “This essay on your dog is, word for word, the same as your brother’s.” Student: “Yes, sir, it’s the same dog.”

-- Mildred Meiers and Jack Knapp, Unknown , Unknown

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

-- W. McKeachie, Unknown , Unknown

Reading is to the mind that exercise is to the body.

-- Richard Steele, The Tatler, No. 147, Unknown

Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better….

-- Carter G. Woodson, Unknown , Unknown

Remember, any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

-- Tip O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House, Unknown , Unknown

Remember. What we do is subtle, mysterious, magical. We can be kind, gentle, soft, but not confused.

-- Barry Kantrowitz, Unknown , Unknown

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

-- William O. Douglas, Unknown , Unknown

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven, Unknown , Unknown

Rules and models destroy genius and art

-- William Hazlitt, "On Taste", 1778-1830

Sam Houston's teaching career lasted one term. In March 1813, he gave up teaching to enlist in General Andrew Jackson's army to fight the Creek Indian War.

-- Kim Obrien, Tennessee Off the Beaten Path, 1990

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

-- John Wolfenden, Unknown , Unknown

Shortcuts aren't always.

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

Since we are all likely to go astray the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

Sittin' in the classroom, Thinkin' it's a drag, Listenin' to the teacher Just ain't my bag.

-- Brownsville Station, song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room", Unknown

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

-- Gracie Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Socrates was not a content provider.

-- David Noble, Unknown , Unknown

Some lecturers talk in their sleep, but most talk in other people's sleep.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

Some teachers are just textbooks wired for sound.

-- Dr. Lola May, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

-- Lin Yutang, Unknown , Unknown

Sparse surroundings create room for the mind.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

-- Unknown , Job. XII. 8., Unknown

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

-- John Andrew Holmes, Unknown , born 1812

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

-- James M. Wallace, Unknown , Unknown

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

-- Carlos Urbizo, Unknown , Unknown

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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

Success is not to be measured by income but by influence, not by power but by personality, not by capital but by character.

-- Stephen W. Gilman, U. of Wisconsin, Unknown , Unknown

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.

-- Marianne Williamson, Unknown , Unknown

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

-- Mary Shelley, in Matthew Arnold (1888) Essays in Criticism Second Series, 1797-1851

Teach the art of living well.

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

-- Rudyard Kipling, The Children's Song, Unknown

Teach your children well…and feed them on your dreams…Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

-- Graham Nash, "Teach your children"on album Dejà Vu by Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, 1970

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

-- Jonathan Edwards, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.

-- Max Forman, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers are the architectrual designers of nations. People must see that education is not an expense, but an investment.

-- Donna Oliver, 1987 United States Teacher of the Year, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

-- Dave Carter, handout: Assessment - Why We Do It How We Do..., June 2002

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

-- Denise Levertov, The Craft of Poetry, Unknown

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

-- A. Bartlett Giam[m]atti, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

-- Joyce A. Myers, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

-- Rashi, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

-- Mortimer Adler, The Paideia Proposal, Unknown

Teachers teach as they have been taught

-- source uncertain, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there.

-- John Roueche, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching = helping someone else learn.

-- L. Dee Fink, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching consists of causing people to go into situations from which they cannot escape except by thinking.

-- possibly William Sparke, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching consists of equal parts perspiration, inspiration, and resignation.

-- Susan Ohanian, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

-- Gore Vidal, Oui, April 1975

Teaching is a process of becoming that continues throughout life, never completely achieved, never completely denied. This is the challenge and the fun of being a teacher -- there is no ultimate end to the process.

-- Frances Mayforth, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching is human communication and like all communication, elusive and difficult…we must be wary of the feeling that we know what we are doing in class. When we are most sure of what we are doing, we may be closest to being a bore.

-- John Holt, What Do I Do Monday? NY: Dutton, 1970

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

-- Jacques Barzun, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning.

-- D. B. Gowin, Educating ( Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press), p. 62, 1981

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible.

-- Todd Whitaker, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

-- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach, Unknown

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

-- Piaget, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

-- Theodore Brameld, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

-- Howard G. Hendricks, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching well is, after all, a process without end.

-- Tom Bengston, Augustana College, USA Today, Nov. 10, 2008

Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.

-- Dr. Ralph Tyler, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching, without learning, is just talking

-- K. Patricia Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques, 1993

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

-- Old Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

-- Ray Bradbury, Unknown , Unknown

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

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

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

-- Donna Fargo, Unknown , Unknown

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

-- Gregory Maguire, Wicked, p. 129. NY: HarperCollins Pub, 1995

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

-- Mark Van Doren, Unknown , Unknown

The art of teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

-- Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown

The bad teacher's words fall on his pupils like harsh rain; the good teacher's, as gently as the dew.

-- Talmud: Ta'anith, 7a, Unknown , Unknown

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

-- Stephen Brookfield, Unknown , Unknown

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

-- Leo Tolstoy, Unknown , Unknown

The best professors in the world don't like hearing themselves speak...To develop great communicators and leaders we ask students to, quite simply, communicate and lead.

-- Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Advertisement, Unknown

The best teachers and researchers are all "intellectual entrepreneurs." They're in the business of creating new information, new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing their particular discipline.

-- David L. Hildebrand, AACU: Peer Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (cited in Tomorrow's Professor, Msg. # 687), Spring 2005

The challenge of education is to prepare students for their future --not our past!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

-- Homer, Unknown , 9th-8th century BC

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

-- Henry Adams, Unknown , Unknown

The child needs a framework within which to find himself; otherwise, he is an egg without a shell.

-- Theresa Ross, Unknown , Unknown

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

-- Adlai Stevenson, Unknown , Unknown

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

-- Willa Cather, 1873-1947, One of Ours, 1922

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn’t doze and does, And that’s what teaching is and was.

-- David McCord, What Cheer, Unknown

The difference between knowing and teaching is communication.

-- Hurt, Scott, and McCroskey, Unknown , 1978

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

-- Dan Rather, Unknown , Unknown

The dry textbook and rote memorization method, so comfortable for teachers and so boring for students, are destroying children's natural love of inquiry.

-- Janet Elder, Unknown , Unknown

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

-- Ellen Key, The Morality of Woman and Other Essays, 'The Conventional Woman', 1911

The educator should be the "leading learner."

-- Thomas Groome, Unknown , Unknown

The eggs do not teach the hen.

-- Russian Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

-- Joe Girard, Unknown , Unknown

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Unknown

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , 1864-1881

The job of a professor is to increase the level of agony in the classroom, so, for students, the only way out is to think.

-- possibly "Fred Friendly", Unknown , Unknown

The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.

-- David Goodstein, Unknown , Unknown

The lasting measure of good teaching is what the individual student learns and carries away.

-- Stanford Erickson, Unknown , Unknown

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

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

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

-- William Arthur Ward, Unknown , Unknown

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

-- Carter G. Woodson, 1933, Unknown

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin….

-- Frederick Douglass, 1849, Unknown

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler, president, Columbia University, Unknown , 1908, 2 November

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

-- Simone Weil, Unknown , 1933-

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

-- Ralph Richardson, Unknown , born December 19, 1902

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

-- Benjamin Bloom, Unknown , Unknown

The Old Pro…Often Wrong…Never in Doubt

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

-- Louis Johannot, Swiss schoolmaster., Unknown , Unknown

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

-- Elizabeth Peters, character Emily Peabody in ' Crocodile on the Sandbank', Unknown

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

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

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The price of greatness is responsibility.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

-- Carl Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

-- E-mail humor, Unknown , Unknown

The real challenge in college teaching is not covering the material for the students but uncovering the material with the students.

-- Karl Smith, Unknown , 1994

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

-- John Amos Comenius, Unknown , 1592-1670

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

-- Seymour Papert, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

The story is told here of a student at one of our more prestigious universities who was approached by one of his lecturers who had observed that the student was not taking notes… ‘Young man' said the lecturer ' I notice that you don't take notes in my lectures. How can you hope to pass the exams?' ‘No problem’ replied the young man' I have my father's notes!' *

-- Bland Tomkinson, Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education listserv, 2001, May 4

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles….He is a senior student anxious to help his juniors.

-- Sir William Osler, Unknown , Unknown

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

-- Clara Barton, Unknown , Unknown

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

-- Pat Cross, Unknown , Unknown

The Teacher as Scholar is important...the Teacher as Person is crucial...the Teacher as Communicator is indispensable.

-- J. Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher is engaged, not simply in the training of the individual, but in the formation of the proper social life. I believe that every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling, that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is a learner.

-- Elbert Hubbard, in his biographical sketch of Friedrich Froebel, Unknown

The teacher should never lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies; if a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced and apparently tranquil girl--go out in the yard and gnaw a post.

-- William Lyon Phelps, Teaching in School and College, Unknown

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

-- Horace Mann, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure…Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.

-- Richard Mulcaster, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

-- Frank Smith, Unknown , Unknown

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinion, but to kindle minds.

-- Frederick W. Robertson, Unknown , Unknown

The true difficulty for teachers is not teaching a student, but teaching a class.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, December 8, 1995

The true teacher defends his pupil against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

-- Amos Bronson Alcott, Orphic Sayings, the Teacher, Unknown

The ultimate teaching machine…learn or die.

-- Advertising slogan, Unknown , Unknown

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

-- George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The wildest colts make the best horses.

-- Plutarch, Unknown , Unknown

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

-- Roger B. Smith, Unknown , 1982

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

-- Arnold Ross, Unknown , Unknown

Theories and goals of education don't mean a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

-- Lou Ann Walker, Unknown , 1952-

There are 3 things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

-- Lola May, Unknown , Unknown

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

There are two types of students who ask to do extra credit: those who do not need it and those who will not complete it.

-- Art Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-- Edith Wheaton., Unknown , Unknown

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.

-- Mary Lowry, Pacific Sun;, November 15, 1985

There is no other beginning of learning than wonder.

-- Theaetetus, Unknown , Unknown

There is no problem, however trivial, that by strict application of accepted methods of pedagogy cannot be rendered completely incapable of solution.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is no reason why good can’t triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

-- Alexander Woollcott, Unknown , Unknown

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

-- Roger Ascham, Unknown , Unknown

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

-- Emerson, Essays. Of Spiritual Laws, Unknown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!

-- Bennett Cerf, Unknown , Unknown

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

-- Shunryu Suzuki, Unknown , Unknown

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

-- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1881

There will rarely be genuine and healthy laughter in a classroom unless the teacher can laugh at a number of things in general, and at himself in particular.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable--explanation.

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

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

-- Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

-- Thomas Brackett Reed, Unknown , Unknown

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

This teaching business is more demanding than it appears from the outside.

-- William Celis 3d, a journalist turned teacher., New York Times, Section 4A, p. 17, Nov 5, 1995

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Those who can, teach. Those who can't go into some less significant line of work.

-- Hallmark, t-shirt slogan, Unknown

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

-- Joseph Stine, Unknown , Unknown

Thought flows in terms of stories -- stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories.

-- Frank Smith, Unknown , Unknown

Three hops get you just as far as one leap.

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

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Unknown , 1905-1980

Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

To be a king and wear a crown is more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasure to them that bear it.

-- Elizabeth I, in Frederick Chamberlin (1923) The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth, 1533-1603

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

-- Soren Kierkegaard, Unknown , Unknown

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

-- Madame de Stael, 1766-1817, Corinne, 1807

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

To generalize is to be an idiot.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

To invite and entice is better than to command and demand.

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

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel, Unknown , Unknown

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the educator.

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

To teach is to learn twice over.

-- Joseph Joubert, Unknown , Unknown

To teach is to learn.

-- Japanese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

To teachers, students are the end products, -- all else is a means. Hence there is but one interpretation of high standards in teaching: standards are highest where the maximum number of students-- slow learners and fast learners alike-- develop to their maximal capacity.

-- Joseph Seidlin, Unknown , Unknown

Today I will remind myself and others that mistakes are lessons too.

-- Linda Conway, Unknown , Unknown

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

-- Roger Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

-- John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Unknown

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

-- Somerset Maugham, Unknown , Unknown

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

-- Henry J. Kaiser, Unknown , Unknown

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

-- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, August 1870

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

-- Gwendolyn Brooks, Unknown , Unknown

Tsi mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

-- Charles Peguy, Unknown , 1873-1914

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-- Henry van Dyke, Unknown , Unknown

Versatility is one of your outstanding traits.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

-- Frank Outlaw, Unknown , Unknown

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.

-- Bonnie Lin, Unknown , Unknown

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

-- Elie Wiesel, Unknown , Unknown

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

-- Jean Rostand, Unknown , Unknown

We are tomorrow's past.

-- Mary Webb, Unknown , Unknown

We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda.

-- Col. Jack N. Summe, U.S. Psychological Operations, The New York Times, December 11, 2005

We can do no great things-- only small things with great love.

-- Mother Teresa, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at each other; until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

-- Richard M. Nixon, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

-- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Unknown , 1954

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

-- William Ernest Hocking, Unknown , Unknown

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Unknown , Unknown

We don't blame the student who can't see the chalkboard; why then do we blame the student who can't see the point?

-- Nicola Simmons, Unknown , Unknown

We have not...convinced our youth that the important thing about a degree is what they learn.

-- Wayne Willis, Lexington Herald Leader, p. A9,, 1996, October 4

We must be the change we wish to see.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown