I love quotes. Here are some of my favorite. You will notice most of them are about education because at this point in my life this is my pasion.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. - St. Augustine
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of the class. - Thomas Edison
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. - Albert Einstein
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. - Agatha Christie
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year...... It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry - especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly. - Albert Einstein
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. - Anatole France
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. - Robert Frost
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell
"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin
Comments
Mar. 20, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by dukygurl
wow I love your blog and the "homeschool family" song posted is adorable!! The quotes are fabulous I was entertained and found it to be very pleasant to find such a page to view!! I am a mom of pre-school aged children and look forward to being their teacher for life! Thanks for posting
Mar. 20, 2008 - I love these!
Posted by jugglingpaynes
They're great! I may have to borrow a few.
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