Education and Teaching

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams, historian

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Cicero, c. 78 B.C.

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less because passing civilization to the next generation ought to be the highest honor, the highest responsibility anyone could have.
Lee Iaccocca

For the unlearned, old age is winter. For the learned, it is the season of harvest.
Hasidic saying

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
German proverb

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Thomas Jefferson

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes (1921-1995), jr., writer

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.
Mirabeau B. Lamar

I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe

I am still learning.
Michelangelo, 1560, at age 85

Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
James Monroe (1758-1831), 5th President of the United States

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson after.

A teacher should know more than he teaches, and if he knows more than he teaches, he will teach more than he knows.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov