Claudette Colvin Quotes

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

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.