From A Teacher's Perspective Tom McGee Lower Merion School District

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." ~Phyllis Diller

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking , 1928

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger

Life is not fair~ Get used to it! ~ Bill Gates

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin