Educational Quotes and insights:
Anne Sullivan
"It is a great mistakes, I think, to put children off with
falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and
discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
"I am beginning to suspect all
elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on
the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to
think."
“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more
certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and
love, too, enter the mind of child ."
Edvard Buhver-Lytton
“
The best teacher is the one who
suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to
teach himself."
"A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell, where his influence stops"
Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I
can only make them think."
"Education is the kind of a flame, not the filling of a vessel"
Anonymous
A mind once stretched by a new idea
never regains its original dimensions.
A professor is one
who talks in someone else's sleep.
I liked the quotation of Socrates. He spent a great time of his life trying to push people to think deeply about ideas, by using his famous dialectic method which is questioning people and motivating them to think.
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