I base my teaching around:
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 thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ~John Dewey
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ~Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ~Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~Confucius
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. ~Dean William R. Inge
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ~Epictetus
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ~John Dewey
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ~Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ~Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~Confucius
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. ~Dean William R. Inge
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ~Epictetus
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. ~R. Buckminster Fuller