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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." John W(illiam) Gardner 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." John W(illiam) Gardner 3.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." James Abram Garfield 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." Kahlil Gibran 4.9714 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow." Kahlil Gibran 4.8125 average rating Rate this Quote
"We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing." Ellen Gilcrist 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled." Baltasar Gracian 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." Ulysses S. Grant 4.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." Paul E. Gray 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." Russell Greene 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour." Vartan Gregorian 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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