Teaching

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cor

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.  - Charlotte Bronte

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  - Johann W. von Goethe

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. - Dean William R. Inge

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.  - George Peabody

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. - Carl Rogers

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. - Virginia Woolfe

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.  - William Ellery Channing

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher, 1981

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.  - William Yeats

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy

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

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. - Sir William Osler

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character... - Sir William Osler

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. - Sir William Osler

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... - Sir William Osler

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. - Ernest Hemingway

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. - W. Edwards Deming

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 1880 - James Abram Garfield

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.  - Brigham Young

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. {from "The Comprachicos"} - Ayn Rand

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.  - Sidney Madwed

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Brougham

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world. - Arnold Glasgow

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. - Robert Orben

The headmaster governs. The schoolteacher teaches. And let the pupils exercise creativity. - Chew Nai Chee

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.  - Elliot Masie

Free should be the scholar - free and brave. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time was present for learners and teachers alike. - Kenneth Ludmerer

More than any other reason, quality in clinical education had depended on the presence of sufficient time in medical practice to allow learners to learn and teachers to teach. - Kenneth Ludmerer

...we have to shake off the ancient tyranny of two misconceptions about education that what is taught is learned; and what is not taught is not learned. - Daniel Federman

Assessment is arguably the most important stimulus for learning. - Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. - J. Willis Hurst

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (British Medical Journal 1995; vol 311, p. 485) - absenceDG Altman and MJ Bland

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. - Sir William Osler

College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents. (from her book, 'Campus Life') - Helen Horowitz

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it. (from 'The Secret of Childhood') - Dr. Maria Montessori

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations. (1914) - Abraham Flexner

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. - Robert H. Jackson

Once you stop learning, you start dying. - Albert Einstein