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

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

~Proverb~

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

~Robert H. Shaffer~

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

~George Bernard Shaw~

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

~Alec Bourne~

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

~Edward Everett~

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

~Anatole France~

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

~Jean Piaget~

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

~John Ruskin~

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

~Lou Ann Walker~

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~

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