Martin Luther Quotes

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

Teachers and parents who incline toward the authoritarian attitude are scornful of “frills.” They consider lecturing, memorization, recitation, and grading to be the basics, as they remember them from their own school days. They believe in withholding promotion form children who have not satisfactorily completed the year’s work in all subjects, despite the evidence that when children are made to repeat a grade, they do not do as well in the following years as similar children who were promoted. To authoritarians, education is not a means to help each child to mature but a series of hurdles over which everyone, of no matter what capability, must jump. A policy of withholding promotion means ignoring the fundamental and complex question of why the children failed and what needs to be done to correct that problem.

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

Everyone out there is growing up too quickly, university does give you responsibility but you're still learning and you have time to go out and have fun.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

By playing, you learn.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.