Education Quotes

"I cannot teach anyone anything; I can only cause them to think."

- Socrates

"Special education is not a place. It's a service."

- Loretta Claiborne

"No child left behind requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of this accountability."

- Dianne Feinstein

"For those with learning disabilities, today's tools for differentiation no longer hold the stigma they used to nor highlight disabilities, but provide opportunities to find success in the classroom."

- Sharon LePage Plante

"The gap between the abilities and capacities of children related to their learning, adjustment and development found at the time of their birth, may further be widened by the nature of the environmental difference encountered by them in their nourishment and education."

- S. K. Mangal

"Great education is a combination of a supporting environment, dedicated teachers and students who take joy in learning."

- Hermann J Steinherr

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."

- Josef Albers

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the education system."

- Sidney Hook

"Give me a fish, and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, and I eat for a lifetime."

- Chinese Proverb

"Great education is a combination of a supporting environment, dedicated teachers, and students who take joy in learning."

- Hermann J Steinherr

"Your image of the child is where teaching begins."

- Loris Malaguzzi

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Instead of teaching children to get ‘there’, why not let them be here? Where is ‘there’ anyway? The world needs more ‘here’ than ‘there’."

- Vince Gowmon

"The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do – such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening – are also the best for child development."

- Jerome Singer

"Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

- Plato

"The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life."

- Vince Gowmon

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns"

- Rita Dunn

"This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop."

- Maria Montessori

"The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education."

- Rudolf Steiner

"All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants"

- J.W. Gardner

"The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six."

- Maria Montessori

"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

"Teach children what to think and you limit them to your ideas. Teach children how to think and their ideas are unlimited."

- Sandra Parks

"To effectively teach a child one must reach the child in mind-body-heart, not just intellect, not just the linear-left brain we make such a priority."

- Vince Gowmon

"The art of teaching lies in knowing the balance between structure and flow, telling and asking, speaking and silence."

- Vince Gowmon

"Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society."

- Maria Montessori

"Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them—a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement."

- Gerald Ford

"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else, rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it."

- Plato

"No Child Left Behind requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special Education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms."

"The teacher and the taught create the teaching."