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Quotes about Teaching and Learning PART II



....only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Education, in its largest sense, is a thing of great scope and extent. It includes the whole process by which a human being is formed to be what she is, in habits, principles, and cultivation of every kind... – Anna Letitia Barbauld

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer--into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Political education should do the same. – Nancy Astor

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable development. – Kofi Annan

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. –  L. Frank Baum

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. – Charles B. Rangel

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. – Terry Goodkind

A little learning is a dangerous thing. – Alexander Pope

True security is based on people’s welfare – on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. – Ban Ki-moon

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership. – Angelina Jolie

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge. – Malala Yousafzai

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. – Mother Jones

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. – Henry Peter Brougham

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. – Henry Ward Beecher

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. – Chinese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. – Latin Proverb

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge--and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. – Parker Palmer

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
– Patricia Neal

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. – Lord Alexander

One must be a student before one can be a teacher. – Chinese Proverb

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Cotton Dana

When one teaches, two learn. – Robert Half

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G. K. Chesterton

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. – George Washington

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. – Rabindranath Tagore


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