The Power of True Learning

801 Education Quotes That Will Make You Love Learning (Again)

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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him… instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it. As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. Our job is not to prepare students for something. Our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything. Humor activates our sense of wonder, which is where learning begins. Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement.

Robert John Meehan Click to tweet. The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. Martin Click to tweet. Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! The job of the teacher is to inspired, to challenge, to excite their students to want to learn.

Yes, they also do explain and demonstrate and show things, but fundamentally that is beside the point. The most important thing a teacher is make every student feel like they are important, to make them feel accountable for doing the work of learning. Raymond and Dorothy Moore. When the teacher regards each student as a unique individual and therefore not to be compared with any other, he is then not concerned with system or method.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process.

We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

There are two kinds of teachers: The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art.

All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.

James Baldwin Click to tweet. 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. Great teachers are earnest learners. A teacher is never a giver of truth — he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Josef Albers Click to tweet. Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures — they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living. If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. Fred Rodgers Click to tweet. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. The best teachers are the ones that know that. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children. What the teacher is , is more important than what he teaches. The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori Click to tweet. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids.

Change is the end result of all true learning. – Deanna Ayres

I got a lot of support from my parents. He spent a lot of time with me… teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. Carol Dweck Click to tweet. My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult.

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Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. Parents can lay the foundations for their teenage children to take good decisions, for example by promoting their ability to retain and elaborate information, or to balance the desire for immediate reward with the one for greater, long-term goals since a young age. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Perhaps the most important thing is to step back and let your child stumble. I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing. My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

The child should live in an environment of beauty. My parents encouraged thought. I take parenting incredibly seriously. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.

If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Plato Click to tweet. The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned.

If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what is good in him rather than emphasizing what is bad. Talk about his goodness. Let the whole neighborhood know how nice and beautiful a boy he is. You may be able to shift his energy from the bad side to the good side, from the dark side to the lighted side, because you will make him aware that this is the way to get respect, this is the way to be honored. I was raised by extremely strict — but also extremely loving — Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents — my dad is a real character and very funny.

I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things! Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. Hillary Clinton Click to tweet. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Be kind to your children. Unless you raise them in a cardboard box without any stimulation or interaction, then they will probably be just fine. With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. Jillian Michaels Click to tweet. Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently.

You look at being a child differently. You know, parenting is so personal. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we — what if we made a mistake? Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak relatively late, so much so that they consulted a doctor. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent — because everyday fears — like not being approved of — pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they — not someone else — must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Recommended article 25 ways on how to help your child succeed in school. Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Ziauddin Yousafzai Click to tweet. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. Education is the best solution to fight many other issues as well.

Through education you can fight child labor. Through education you can fight child trafficking. Through education you can also fight poverty. Education is a vital human right and plays a key role in human, social, and economic development. Global Partnership For Education. Getting a job is not the purpose of school. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr. 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.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education builds on itself, creating greater capacity to educate others and nurture a culture that values learning. If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. Anatole France Click to tweet. Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. It seems our schools need to find the self-confidence and determination to push ahead with an idea that goes back decades. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. Research suggests that a lack of education can be as dangerous as smoking. Last but not least, lack of education leads to a more stressful life. It also teaches us justice, it also teaches us respect, it teaches us how to live together. There are obviously two educations.

One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. Education provides us with knowledge about the world. It paves the way for a good career. It helps build character. It leads to enlightenment. It lays the foundation of a stronger nation. My experience and my life tell me that education has empowered me.

Had I not been educated, who would I have been to express my views? Education gave me that power. I have managed to turn the challenges into very powerful learnings. It has been a powerful transformational journey to arrive at a published book within just 3 months of making the decision to write. My whole career has been driven by curiosity. I started out as a scientist, gained a PhD in life sciences in and worked in postdoctoral research at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago for a few years.

My curiosity developed from the world of the cell and of physiology to that of the mind and the human brain. As a result my career shifted to learning, delivering and creating brain based personal development trainings. I integrated in my personal and business life the innovative power of being curious and learning to see pass pre-established dogmas and paradigms.

I use this approach on a daily basis now with all my coaching clients and love watching the transformations and results they create. It was only natural to end up writing some of these insights. Yes, it is here. The final end result will be a printed book that merges part 1, 2 with some practical techniques to bring all the learning to life and support leaders transform their leadership and impact.

The aim is for that to be ready by Spring Then check out our conversation with Tom Evans. Notify me of new posts by email. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Sign me up for your weekly newsletter. But first, who is Leo Buscaglia? Leo was an original In my opinion, Leo Buscaglia was an original. He put it like this: And if you miss love, you miss life. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Love is always bestowed as a gift, freely, willingly, and without expectation. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement.

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To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Your comments are most welcome.

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