Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.

-Helen Keller
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.
Teamwork divides that tasks and multiplies the success.
-author unknown
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
If we would just support each other - that's ninety percent of the problem.
-Edward Gardner
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
-Althea Gibson
We should not only use the brains we have but all that we can borrow.
-Woodrow Wilson
We may have all come on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate
and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
-Charles Darwin
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
-Margaret Carty
Many hands make light work.
-John Heywood
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
-Kenyan Proverb
None of us is as smart as all of us.
-Ken Blanchard
A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.
-Father Strickland
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Meade

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to
praise the skill of the others.
-Norman Shidle
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-George Burns
Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.
-Ryunosuke Satoro
TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More
-author unknown
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 endless immensity of the sea.
-Antione de Saint-Exupery
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
-Benjamin Franklin
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened.
-Buddha

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

-Emerson

"The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair

man's kids through college."
Joan Welsh

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow here only one grew
before.
- Elbert Hubbard

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

- T.H.Huxley

I do not teach. I relate.

- Montaigne

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

Imagination encircles the world
Albert Einstein

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

- Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;

cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice.
Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn
something he wasn't suppose to.
- E.C. McKenzie

Some student drink at the fountain of knowledge.

Others just gargle.
- E.C. McKenzie

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can
prove it.
- E. C. McKenzie

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all

day Saturday.
- E. C. McKenzie

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas:

Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.
- E. C. McKenzie

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the
world.
- Joey Adams

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

- Henny Youngman

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

- Charles Shultz (Peanuts)

It is hard to convince a high school student that he will encounter a

lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
- Edgar W. Howe

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught
driver's education and sex education in the same car.
- Mary Sue Terry

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

- Gail Godwin

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one

generation to another.
- G. K. Chesteron

I'm not rushing into being in love.

I'm finding 4th Grade hard enough.
- Regina who is age 10.

Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife.

- Tommy, Age 5

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I

once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one

day!"
- Milton Berle

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!
- Milton Berle

One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30

years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally
immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her
$50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.
- Milton Berle

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up

and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
- Milton Berle

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with
ignition trouble.
- Milton Berle

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is

theirs---is that a promise or a threat?
- Milton Berle

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for
a big head.
- J. Graham

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our
children.
- Dan Quale

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

less trouble.
- Mark Twain

Teaching consists of equal parts perspiration, inspiration and

resignation.
- Susan Ohanian

If you think education is expensive --- try ignorance!

- Derek Bok

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

- Henny Youngman

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than

problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin

America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day.
- Mary Jean Le Tendre

I quit school in the 5th Grade because of pneumonia. Not because I

had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
- Rocky Graziano

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without

his teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard

I forgot when I was taught. I only remember wheat I have learned.

- Patrick White

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he

can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision.

He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
- R. Inman

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others

judge us by what we have done.
- Henry Woodsworth Longfellow

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster

could be out and out a rational being.
- Sir Walter Scott

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's
world---an assigned parking space.
- Gene Perret

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree
on the same answer.
- Joey Adams

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

- Edgar Watson Howe

I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in
the modern education---show and tell.
Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate
family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.
- Robert Orben

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a
lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
- Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high
school class is running the country.
- Kurt Vonnegut

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the
clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"
- James E. Myers

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might not get there.
- Yogi Bera

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

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

- Joey Adams

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and
challenges.
- Joyce A. Myers

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that
once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come
upon the little-read school boy.
- Bennet Cerf

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and
enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be
learned.
- Agnes Repplier

As the youngsters grow attached to their teachers and

classmates...they can finally say goodbye to their mothers without
reenacting the death scene from Camille.
- Sue Mittenthal

Teaching has ruined more American novelists thank drink.

- Gore Vidal

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers

Academic vows:
Poverty, Bibliography, and Jargon.
- Leo Rosten

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot"
rather than how to shoot it.
- Larry Hawkins

A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself

progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas J. Carruthers

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student

hears.
- Maurice Natanson

A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his

audience's attention. Then he can teach his lesson.
- Hendrik John Clarke

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a

progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability; but, you
can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
- Thomas Bailey

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd

have to pay cash.
- Rita Mae Brown

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real

life, I assure you, there is no such a thing as algebra.
- Fran Leibowitz

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Education is...hanging around until you've caught on.

- Robert Frost

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D. or Ph.D. Unfortunately,

they don't have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school:

"A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit,
and children who don't hit, to hit back."
- James E. Myers

I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz
Taylor is never going to teach First and Second Grade.
- Mary J. Wilson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

- Tennyson

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- Thomas Dewar

Wisdom is one treasure that no thief can touch.

- Japanese Proverb

The eggs do not teach the hen.

- Russian Proverb

Children have more need of models than of critics.

- Joubert

Education to be successful, must not only inform but inspire.

- T. Sharper Knowlson

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher;
a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
- Evan Esar

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

Puberty is the period when students stop asking questions and begin
to question answers.
- Anonymous

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

- Anonymous

There is only one thing that costs more than education today,
the lack of it.
- Anonymous

If the cost of education continues to rise, education will become as

expensive as ignorance.
- Phi Delta Kappan

The more whimsical and cantankerous a teacher's grading system, the

less the chance of her being replaced by an Apple II computer.
- Art Peterson

More people than ever before are graduated, but

not educated.
- Robert Gunderson

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
- Evan Esar

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

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

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the
spoon.
E.M. Forster

You send a boy to school in order to make friends--the right sort.

Virginia Woolf

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student."

Marva Collins

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
--William Arthur Ward

"Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet

soup?"
John Mendosa.

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

--Mark Van Doren

"Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theatre."

Gail Godwin

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a

great teacher."
--Japanese proverb

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.
B.F. Skinner

"Information is the currency of democracy."

--Ralph Nader

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
--Henry Ford"

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

stops."
Henry B. Adams

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers

and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."
--Lee Iacocca

"Be all that you can be. Find your future--as a teacher."
--Madeline Fuchs Holzer

I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory

being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley

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

William Butler Yeats

"The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that
his anxious parents think he should live."
A.S. Neil

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

Joseph Addison

"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about
being unemployed."

Bruce Lee.

"The only dumb question is the question you don't ask."

Paul MacCready

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to

distinguish what is worth reading.
Trevelyan

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and
feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting

than sex."
Edgar Wallace.

"An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical

order."
Mike Barfield.

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching
them to walk and talk, and the next twelve years telling them to sit
down and shut up."
Phyllis Diller

"I hate quotations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living

are to the dead."
Aristotle

"A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half

monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic."
Susan Ohanian

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn
something he wasn't supposed to."
E.C. McKenzie

"Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the
kids who have to do all the work."
Milton Berle

"It is hard to convince a high school student that he will encounter a

lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
Edgar W. Howe

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal
influence."
A.B. Alcott

"Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for
a big head."
J. Graham

"The perfect method of learning is analogous to infection.

It enters and spreads."
Leo Stein

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

rhinoceros."
Anne Sexton

"I am always ready to learn although,

I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill

"Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents

until it rains all day Saturday."
E.C. McKenzie

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

Nathanial Emmons

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot

irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is
known, but to question it."
Jacob Bronowski

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than

problems to solve."
Roger Lewin

"America's future walks trough the doors of our schools each day."
Mary Jean Le Tendre

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without

his teacher."
Elbert Hubbard

"I forget what I was taught.

I only remember what I have learned."
Patrick White

"Education: A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation

of some previously held belief."
George Bernard Shaw

"A teacher should be sparing of his smile."

William Cowper

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by

somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to
know."
G.K. Chesterton

"Much that passes for education...is not education at all but ritual.
The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."
David P. Gardner

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Will Rogers

"A teacher's constant task is to take a roomful of live wires and see
to it that they're grounded."
E.C. Mckenzie

"A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself
progressively unnecessary."
Thomas J. Carruthers

"The aim of education should be to teach the child to think,

not what to think."
John Dewey

"What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student

hears."
Maurice Natanson

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

"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability;

But, you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
Thomas Bailey

"If we succeed in giving the love of learning,

the learning itself is sure to follow."
Sir John Lubbock

"Education can not be conferred.

Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition."
Wheeler McMillen

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason
why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
Thomas Dewar

"Wisdom is one treasure that no thief can touch."

Japanese Proverb

"Children have more need of models, than of critics."

Joubert

"Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the

conditions under which learning takes place."
S.I. Hayakawa

"Education, to be successful, must not only inform, but inspire."

T. Sharper Knowlson

"Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a

great experience."
Evan Esar

"It is not the IQ but the I WILL that is most important in

education."
Anonymous

"If the cost of education continues to rise, education will become as

expensive as ignorance."
Phi Delta Kappan

"Encourage spontaneity...by regularly scheduling creative activities."

Art Peterson

"Inside every C+ student is a B- student trying to get out."

Art Peterson

"Back in the old days, it was the student rather than the teacher
who had to explain why they could not read."
Cy N. Peace

"Knowledge is like money. If you keep quiet about it, people will think
you've got more than you have."
Anonymous

"Education makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive;

easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
Lord Brougham

"To teach is to learn twice over."

Joseph Joubert

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,

the lesson afterward."
Vernon Law

"Books are not men and yet they are alive.

They are man's memory and his aspiration,
the Link between his present and his past,
the tools he builds with."
Stephen V. Benet

"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

Free the childs potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
If youre going to equalize the academic playing field, youve got to get the kids
in early childhood programs.
Paul Vallas quotes
Laurence Houseman once said, A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
John Trimble
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
This state has put a lot of concentration on reforming the K-12 system, but weve
done very little with early childhood education. We cant wait until they get to

kindergarten because then were just playing catch-up.

Evelyn Keating
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of
idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them
right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we
dont begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of
falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Robert. L. Ehrlich
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is
someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for
building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to
read.
Marilyn Jager Adams
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Hiam Ginnot
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time.
And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.'
Rita Dove
:Beginning nutrition education in early childhood is an important part of helping
to ensure that children will achieve healthful lifestyles.
Robert Earl

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up
because theyre looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Chinese proverb
Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are
enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their most formative
years in bad programs.Thats why Im issuing a challenge to our states:
Develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of your early learning programs;
show us how youll work to ensure that children are better prepared for success
by the time they enter kindergarten. If you do, we will support you with an Early
Learning Challenge Grant that I call on Congress to enact.
President Barack Obama, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March
10, 2009
There is no bilingual child care, and these children are arriving to kindergarten
without the same early childhood experiences to help them succeed
~ Marta Koesling
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and
wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but

geniuses.
Goethe
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the
year.
Eleanor Farjeon
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just
learned this morning.
Anonymous

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time,
the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you
call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma
Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school
the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was
already taken. ~Bill Dodds
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J.
Harris
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate
him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer
such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes
would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse,
1883
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I
used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
~Author Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge
in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown,

commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any
other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. ~Four Hundred
Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble,
1902
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to
bed. ~Robert Gallagher
It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.
~Finley Peter Dunne
You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy
McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward
Everett
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not
for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by
the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do
not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug
Larson

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

S. Forbes

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time

that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as
Artist," 1890

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug
use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start
the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs,
in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate

themselves. ~Abb Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter

Drucker

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving
young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own
plants. ~John W. Gardner

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six
months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really
be educated. ~Al McGuire

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J.
Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures
called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't
take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of

continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by
creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
~Clay P. Bedford

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
~Mohammed

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879

1962)

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

~Winston Churchill

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can
continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to

one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their
own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor
of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy
later. ~Dana Stewart Scott

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler

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

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his
wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran

Worst thing is trying to find a good seat on the first day of

school.
unknown

Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is
almost as much fun as birthing them was.
Jenny McCarthy

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of

school, not Graduation Day.
Harry Wong


Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is
terrifying.
Arabella Weir

I felt abandoned - watching my mum leave me with strangers. I'll

never forget that feeling. Then I had very happy years at school.
Claire Sweeney

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Charles Dederich

I wish school was always as laid back as the first day of school
is
unknown

I felt like the first day of school or someting. My heart was

beating a litttle faster, my anticipation was building up. It was like
the first day of school when you go to kindergaten or
something.
Carlos Boozer

You're off to great to great places. Today is your first day! Your
mountain is waiting, so get on your way!
Dr. Seuss

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of
school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
Jenny Han

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do
inside the college and at the last day of a college you will wonder
what will you do outside the college
Amit Kalantri


School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation's over, school is
here.
Winifred C. Marshal

First day of school! Wake up! Come on. First day of school.
Finding Nemo

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long

absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under
water at the same time.
Mark Twain

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life
becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott


Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to
the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Chinese Proverb

First day of school' how could nemo be excited. I'm more like his
dad. 'Five more minutes'.
unknown

Why do people cry on the last day of school? You should be

crying on the first day of school.
unknown

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child
who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

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

knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good
grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and
learning.
Chuck Grassley

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must
learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself
with the pen, and not the gun.
Josephine Baker

The first day of school - The day when the countdown to the last
day of the school begins.
unknown

The first day of school is always a fashion show, The rest of the
school year? A pajama party.
unknown

That awkward moment on the first day of school when you'll go

in front of the class and introduce yourself.
unknown

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

Ray LeBlond

A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning.

Vietnamese (on journeys)

Brains are better than brawn.

unknown

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

Don't reinvent the wheel.

unknown

Doubt is the key to knowledge.

Iranian (on education)

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Example is the best precept.

Aesop (c.620-560 BC)

Hit the nail on the head.

John Heywood (c.1497-1580)

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.

Spanish Proverb

It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.

Japanese (on relative worth)

Know thyself.
Ancient Greek Proverb

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Learning is better than house and land.

David Garrick (1716-1779)

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

unknown

Never stop learning.

unknown

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates (469-399 BC)

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Put two and two together.

unknown

The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.

Bahamian (on knowledge and justice)

What good is running when you're on the wrong road.

German (on planning)

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of
things.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come.

Chinese Proverb

When you're sad, learn something,

Merlin


Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972)

With time even a bear can learn to dance.

Yiddish (on education)

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks
is a fool for life.

Chinese Proverb - (thanks to Alice Fonda-Marsland)

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

A penny for your thoughts.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I

learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does
not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing,

and by falling over.
Richard Branson

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of

learning.
Bill Gates

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

taught.
Winston Churchill

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass

an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from
the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of
learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach
him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning
process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Eartha Kitt

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn
what is untrue.
Antisthenes

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our

bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer

an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before
they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to
learn.
Henry S. Haskins

Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom

achievement.
Robert John Meehan

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

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same
materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the
same size clothing.
Madeline Hunter

If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the

explorer for the journey of a lifetime.
Anonymous

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still

differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play
without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams

and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of
what mainstream schooling actually does.
Geoff Mulgan


Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with
ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in
life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Mark Twain

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

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of

keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to
teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not

finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me
more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead
for the future.
Euripides

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear
your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull
it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to

tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner

Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: every man I

meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead
to action.
Jim Rohn

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.

John Maxwell

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away
from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best
interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel Boorstin

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any
other way.
Mark Twain

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can
- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you
did.

Sarah Caldwell

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions

in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to

learn.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Benjamin Jowett

Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to

distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we
adults convince them that learning is not fun.
Glenn Doman