Quotes

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

The only per­son who is edu­cated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Carl Rogers)

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. (John Cot­ton Dana)

My job [is] to awaken pos­si­bil­ity in other peo­ple. If their eyes are shin­ing, you know you’re doing it. If they’re not shin­ing you get to ask this ques­tion: “Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shin­ing?” (Ben­jamin Zander)

If kids can’t learn the way we teach, per­haps we should teach the way kids learn. (Igna­cio Estrada)

One of the most anxiety-​​inducing side effects of the infor­ma­tion era is the feel­ing that you have to know it all. (Richard Wurman)

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. (John Wooden)

What if school wasn’t prepa­ra­tion for real life, it was real life? (Chris Lehmann)

Build a career. Plan to be bet­ter tomor­row than today, but don’t plan to be fin­ished. (Carol Ann Tomlinson)

It’s more excit­ing know­ing that what I found isn’t the final answer. I know a lot more than any­one here ever asks me. (7^th grade student)

How do teach­ing and learn­ing improve? The answer is no mys­tery. It’s as sim­ple as this: I can­not improve my craft in iso­la­tion from oth­ers. (Carl Glickman)

In edu­ca­tion, par­ody is obso­lete. (Alfie Kohn)

Def­i­n­i­tion of a lec­ture: a means of trans­fer­ring infor­ma­tion from the notes of the lec­turer to the notes of the stu­dent with­out pass­ing through the minds of either. (Graf­fiti at War­wick University)

We can throw stones, com­plain about them, stum­ble on them, climb over them, or build with them. (William Arthur Ward)

The smartest per­son in the room isn’t the per­son at the front of the room. It’s the room. (David Weisenberg)

No mat­ter what your abil­ity is, effort is what ignites that abil­ity and turns it into accom­plish­ment. (Carol Dweck)

Reduc­ing chil­dren to a test score is the worst form of iden­tity theft we could com­mit in schools. (Stephen Covey)