A learner's diary: Quotes about learning and education

These quotes are a reminder for teachers who want to enhance their teaching all the time.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.-- Joseph Campbell
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.-- W. B. Yeats
The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.-- Robert Maynard Hutchins
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.-- Marva Collins
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.-- Henry B. Adams
Information cannot replace education.-- Earl Kiole
We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.-- Anonymous
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.-- Meladee McCarty
Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion.-- Unknown
Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher.-- Aaron Bacall
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.-- David M. Burns
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.-- Linnaeus
A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.-- Henry Adams
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.-- Mark Twain
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.-- Bill Bernbach
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.-- Aristotle
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.-- Alec Bourne
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-- Aristotle
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten-- B. F. Skinner
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.-- Gail Godwin
Education is the best provision for old age.-- Aristotle
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.-- Confucius
The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.-- Robert Buzzell
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.-- Alexis de Tocqueville
Children need models rather than critics.-- Joseph Joubert
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.--Amos Bronson Alcott
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone-- Marian Wright Edelman
Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions.-- D.T. Max
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.-- Abraham Lincoln
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.-- John Bradshaw
It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.--Linda Conway
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.-- Albert Einstein
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it.-- Soren Kierkegaard
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.-- Thumper's father (Bambi 1942)
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.-- James Baldwin
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.-- Maria Callas
A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.-- Cesar Chavez
The highest result of education is tolerance.-- Helen Keller