Good teaching is one-fourth

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

Education… has produced a

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

Children have to be

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet

Why should society feel

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm

Education is a better

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

Spoon feeding in the

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster

The true aim of

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds. Frederick William Robertson