We Could Not Have Said It Better Ourselves!

Here is a series of great quotes from outstanding individuals that completely embody all that we stand for. We could not have said it better ourselves! Notice that we placed the most important quote first and last. Enjoy!

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say “tomorrow.” Their name is today. – Gabriela Mistral (Chilean teacher 1899 – 1957)

t is not sufficient, and it may actually undermine our democracy, to concentrate on producing people who do well on standardized tests and who define success as getting a well-paid job. – Nel Noddings, What Does It Mean to Educate the Whole Child?

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. – Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers. – Margaret Mead

To learn, you must want to be taught. – Proverbs 12:1

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you appeal to the highest level of thinking, you get the highest level of performance. – Jack Stack

Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees – J. Willard Marriott

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. Gardner

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him – Jonathan Swift

Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental… The freedom to learn… has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only what we believe, but what we do not believe; not only what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries have said. We must insist upon this to give our children the fairness of a start which will equip them with such an array of facts and such an attitude toward truth that they can have a real chance to judge what the world is and what its greater minds have thought it might be. – W.E.B. DuBois

You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. – The Doctor – Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. – Robert Fros

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards. – Mark Twain

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. – Madeline Hunter

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. – Lee Iacocca

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth. – Elie Wiesel

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. – G.C. Lichtenber

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

A child miseducated is a child lost. – John F. Kennedy

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. – Ernest Boyer

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. – John Stuart Mill

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. – John W. Gardner

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Meade

It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. – (unknown)

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education. – Robert A. Millikan

There are young people out there cutting raw cocaine with chemicals from the local hardware store. They are manufacturing new highs and new products buy soaking marijuana in ever changing agents, and each of these new drugs is more addictive, more deadly and less costly than the last. How is it that we have failed to tap that ingenuity, that sense of experimentation? How is it that these kids who can measure grams and kilos and can figure out complex monetary transactions cannot pass a simple math or chemistry test? – Senator Kohl, from the U.S. Senate Hearing: “Crisis in Math and Science Education.”

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say “tomorrow.” Their name is today. – Gabriela Mistral (Chilean teacher 1899 – 1957)