Simone Weil Quotes

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

If children have interest, then Education happens

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Men learn while they teach.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.