It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.
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.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
