Category Archives: Quotes

As every second post on this site is a quote. You’ll find a deep and broad variety of quotes under this category, which overlap with several other tags and categories. Many of the quotes are larded with links for deeper reading on the subject of the quote, or connections between the subject of the quotes and other people, things, or ideas. See the Taxonomies page for more about this category.

Artists of the Mind

Posted on June 7, 2016 | Leave a comment

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) As quote in Spectator (1711)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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What Do We Teach?

Posted on May 31, 2016 | Leave a comment

“At present there are differences of opinion…for all peoples do not agree as to the things that the young ought to learn, either with a view to virtue or with a view to the best life, nor is it clear whether their studies should be regulated more with regard to intellect or to regard to character.”

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Education and Social Equity

Posted on May 23, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Surely there is enough for everyone within this country. It is a tragedy that these good things are not more widely shared. All our children ought to be allowed a stake in the enormous richness of America.”

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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The Virtue of Liberalism

Posted on May 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

“The noblest aspect of the American liberal tradition is its respect for diversity.”

Theodore R. Sizer (1932-2009)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Some Confucian Wisdom

Posted on May 13, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Learning without thought is time lost.”

Confucius

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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What Teachers Really Do

Posted on May 13, 2016 | Leave a comment

“The teacher’s task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in from of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.”

Nathan M. Pusey (1907-2001) as Quoted in The New York Times (1959)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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On Role Modeling

Posted on May 13, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Lest We Forget

Posted on May 10, 2016 | 2 comments

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Kudos to Anaya Ellick!

Posted on May 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

One can only stand in awe and admiration, in my not particularly humble opinion, of this extraordinary child.

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What Makes a Person Educated?

Posted on May 2, 2016 | Leave a comment

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.”

Anatole France (1844-1924)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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