417 Quotes About Teachers

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.

No Child Left Behind' was implemented because the children in America were getting too smart and they needed to be stopped. It worked. Since its implementation, America has dropped from being #1 in education to #27.

Why is it that the U.S. government doesn't reward public servants by allowing them to live tax-free?

Why aren't public schools opened 24 hours a day and 7 days a week? Why should parents have to work one set of hours while their children go to school a different set of hours? Why can't children attend school during the same hours that their parents work so they can spend more time together?

Instead of teaching kids to memorize the answers to predetermined questions, we must inspire them to come up with their own questions.

It was a place to have a young mind challenged, to dream about the future, time to grow, explore, and discover one's place in the world.

All through the ages schoolmasters seem to have had the delusion that they could order society as readily as they could a classroom.

Learning can't be force fed. It needs to come in response to genuinely asked questions by genuinely curious people. Experts can't educate your kids until your kids have the desire to be educated.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.