101.0002Quotes

Please add your quote. Be sure to state who the author of the quote is. Tell the context of the quote if known. Underneath your quote type, "contributed by..." and put your name.

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good--in spite of all the people who say he is very good." ~Robert Graves~ contributed by Jared Boghosian

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." -Robert H. Schuller contributed by Angela

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." By Albert Einstein Contributed by John

"The secret of education is respecting the pupil." Ralph Waldo Emerson Contributed by Katie

"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated but to make complicated things simple." - S. Gudder Contributed by Sarah

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown Contributed by Dan B.

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart." Salman Rushdie Contributed by Jennie

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." -Clay P. Bedford Contributed by Amanda

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch Contributed by Justin

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated." -Horace Mann Contributed by Ryan

"Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But learn, my God do you learn." -C.S. Lewis Contributed by Kaitlin

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing" -Wernher Von Braun Contributed by Taylor

"The charm or history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." -Aldous Huxley Contributed by Scott "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition" -Jacques Martin Barzun Contributed by Pete

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way"- George Evans Contributed by Connor

"Those who can do...do. Those who Can't teach." -Henry Louis Mencken Contributed by Damian

"Nine Tenths of education is encouragement." -Albert Einstein Contributed by Dan H