Quotations on Learning (Work in Progress)

“Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it”
~ Shinichi Suzuki

“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”
~ Pablo Casals

“Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad”
~ Paul Smally

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
~ Dr. Haim Ginott

“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

“When love is deep, much can be accomplished”
~ Shinichi Suzuki

“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
~ Richard L. Evans

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
~ Confucius

“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance.”
~ Professor William Hundert

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
~ Shinichi Suzuki

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another; it is the only means.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
~ James Arthur Baldwin

“Not to know what happened before you were born is be forever a child.”
~ Cicero

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
~ John Cotton Dana

“It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit”
~ Shinichi Suzuki

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
~ Elbert Hubbard

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
~ W. B. Yeats

“One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
~ Carl Jung

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
~ Roger Lewin

“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 the thoughts of other men.”
~ James Beattie

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~ Malcolm Forbes

“ Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”
~ Sir William Haley

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
~ Anatole France

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
~ Galileo Galilei

“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
~ John Ruskin

“We must have the courage to examine everything, discuss everything and even to teach everything.”
~ Condorcet

“I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makesthe weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”
~ Dr. Haim Ginott

“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
~ Phyllis Diller

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
~ Angela Schwindt

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
~ Galileo Galilei

“I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.”
~ Shinichi Suzuki

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
~ Abigail Van Buren

“Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.”
~ Ropo Oguntimehin

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows.”
~ Laurence Lee

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton