Education, Teaching and Learning Quotations
Marilyn Lesmeister

Teaching is not talking and learning is not listening. Teaching is the art of aiding discovery.

Everything doesn’t have to happen at the front of the room.

It is not possible to teach anyone, anything. It is only possible for someone to learn ~ John Dewey

 The goals of learning belong to the learner. 

Learning is not a task or a problem—it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him. ~Sidney Jourard

 What is the worst teaching technique?  The one that is used all the time, whatever it is!  Variety is the spice of the learning situation. ~Russell D. Robinson

 Education is not a matter of packing articles in a trunk. ~John Ruskin

 The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.  ~Rick Warren 

 Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ~Henry Ford  

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ~Audre Lorde 

 It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ~Henry David Thoreau 

 I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. ~Sir Winston Churchill 

 He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~Richard Henry Dann

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. ~Seymour Papert

 It's what we think we know already that keeps us from learning. ~Claude Bernard

 We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning. ~Elliott Masie 

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. ~Mary Catherine Bateson

 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~Goethe 

What is learned is far more important than what is taught. ~Win Wenger

 The teacher's task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way. ~John Warren

 Adults who continue to participate in educational activity learn more effectively than adults who do not routinely participate in formal learning. ~G. Lippitt

 The learner should be actively involved in the learning process. ~Malcolm Knowles 

If you want to feed people for a day, give them a fish ... If you want to feed them for a lifetime teach them to fish. If you want people to remain dependent upon you, teach them one fact at a time. If your want people to learn for a lifetime, help them learn how to learn. ~Adapted by Bill Lowthert 

The best way to learn is the way you would teach your best friend. ~Mary Jane Gill
 

Educational maturity occurs when you can forget bad educational experiences from the past, and begin your lifelong learning journey. ~Bill Lowthert 

Education is not a matter of packing articles into a trunk. ~Alfred North Whitehead 

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, not a reservoir. ~John Mason 

When teaching, light a fire; don't fill a bucket. ~Dan Snow 

 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin 

 The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren