Education Quotes to Peruse and Ponder
The following quotes are from the English Teacher’s Network quote page:
- “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — (Louis) Hector Berlioz
- “Academy: A modern school where football is taught.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) – The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
- “Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” – G. M. Trevelyan
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” — John Cotton Dana
- “Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.” — R. Verdi
- “An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.” — Source Unknown
- “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
