Quotes

Just a few of my favorite quotes about learning and teaching.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Carl Rogers)

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. (John Cotton Dana)

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all. (Richard Wurman)

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. (John Wooden)

What if school wasn’t preparation for real life, it was real life? (Chris Lehmann)

Build a career. Plan to be better tomorrow than today, but don’t plan to be finished. (Carol Ann Tomlinson)

It’s more exciting knowing that what I found isn’t the final answer. I know a lot more than anyone here ever asks me. (7th grade student)

How do teaching and learning improve? The answer is no mystery. It’s as simple as this: I cannot improve my craft in isolation from others. (Carl Glickman)

In education, parody is obsolete. (Alfie Kohn)

Definition of a lecture: a means of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either. (Graffiti at Warwick University)