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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don’t need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

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

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.