Education Quotes

"There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do instead of what they cannot do."

- Temple Grandin

"One of a teacher’s most important jobs is to teach children how to think."

- Preschool Inspirations

"The children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Mead

"[Children should] be allowed to remain in the Garden of Eden until they are strong enough to stand the cultural process without being broken by it."

- Johnson

"Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand."

- Carl Orff

"More can be taught with a single smile than with a whole year worth of lessons."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"The future of the safety movement is not so much dependent upon the invention of safety devices as on the improvement of methods of educating people to the ideal of caution and safety."

- Walter Dill Scott

"You don’t need to know the whole alphabet of Safety. The A, B, and C of it will save you if you follow it: Always Be Careful."

- Mines Magazine (Colorado School of Mines)

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

"The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise."

- Thomas Sydenham

"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it."

- Hippocrates

"I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized."

- Haim G. Ginott

"It is vital that when educating our children's brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts."

- Dalai Lama

"Rushing children's development is a formula for turning them into who they are not. Letting them play is a kind means of meeting them where they are and encouraging their authentic unfolding."

- Vince Gowmon

"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 goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn."

- Maria Montessori

"We keep thinking as adults that we need to control the way they do things. I wish we'd get out of that. They know how to play, they know how to structure their own play – they need that time to grow responsibly."

- Debbie Rhea

"Children come into the world exquisitely designed, and strongly motivated, to educate themselves. They don't need to be forced to learn; in fact, coercion undermines their natural desire to learn."

- Peter Gray

"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

"If it hasn't been in the hand and body, it can't be in the brain."

- Bev Bos

"If we want children to play BIG in the world, then let's let them play in small ways to start."

- Vince Gowmon

"Movement isn't a break from learning; movement is learning, and the opportunities for thoughtful exploration in the classroom are endless."

- Aleta Margolis

"A child learns when time. Some want to read at age three and some don't care until age eight. There is no right or wrong way, no best timeline. If a child shows no interest in reading or math, it's because he or she has something far more important to explore."

- Vince Gowmon

"Structure is akin to a fence surrounding a playground. While it is needed, if it is too close, it will stifle exploration and learning."

- Vince Gowmon

"Learning is not a spectator sport."

- D. Blocher

"When one teaches, two learn."

- Robert Heinlein

"If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach."

- Deepak Chopra

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

- C.S. Lewis

"There is no substitute for knowledge, training, and experience when it comes to safety."

- Unknown

"The chapter you are learning today is going to save someone’s life tomorrow. Pay attention."