A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants

To teach is to learn twice

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve

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

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another