John Dewey Quotes

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

I love the classroom.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

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

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.