• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell when his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams.

• Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

• "To know" is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Confucius

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison

• Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

• Laws of teaching: ** A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students. ** The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the information retained by students. Anonymous

• The bad teacher imposes his ideas and methods on his pupils... The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberate them by the stimulating infuence of the inspiration that he can impart. Stephen Neill

• The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese proverb

• I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates

• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listerner with the wish to teach himself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• The most important outcome of education is to help students to become independent of formal education. Paul E. Gray

• A good teacher is one who says something that you won't understand until ten years later. Julius Lester

• A good teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. R. Inman

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis