John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

To teach is to learn twice.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

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

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.