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.

Happy New Year, 2016!

Posted on January 4, 2016 | 2 comments

“I believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

John Dewey from a Pamphlet Published by E.L. Kellogg and Co. (1897)

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Schooling’s Deadening Routine

Posted on December 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Much that passes for education…is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”

David P. Gardner Vital Speeches (1975)

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

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Memo to Education Policy Makers

Posted on December 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

Jacques Barzun as Quoted in Newsweek (1955)

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

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The Real Crisis in American Education

Posted on November 28, 2015 | Leave a comment

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.”

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

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

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Anne Sullivan on Professional Satisfaction

Posted on November 23, 2015 | Leave a comment

“My heart is singing for joy…The light of understanding has shone in my little pupil’s mind, and behold all things are changed.”

Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)

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

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The Case for Reading Proficiency

Posted on November 16, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and to others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.”

Harold Bloom, Short Stories and Poems for Exceptionally Intelligent Children (2001)

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

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What Is Education?

Posted on November 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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

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Plato on Differentiated Instruction

Posted on November 2, 2015 | 2 comments

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato (427?-347 B.C.)

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

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William Blake on Recess

Posted on October 26, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Such, such were the joys/When we all, girls and boys/In our youth time were seen/On the Echoing Green.”

William Blake, Songs of  Innocence (1789)

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

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Mark Twain on Classroom Management

Posted on October 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Describing her first day back in grade school, after a long absence, a teacher said, ‘It was like trying to hold thirty-five corks under water at the same time.’”

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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

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