Clifford Stoll Quotes

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

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

Men learn while they teach.

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.

The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

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

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.