"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"
-- B. F. Skinner
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think." -- Albert Einstein
Some quotations on teaching:
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." ---Josef Albers
"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value." ---
Bertrand Russell
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." --- Amos B. Alcott
"If you want to build a ship, don't begin by giving orders to drum up the men
to gather wood and cut boards. Instead, awaken their hearts to yearn for the
vast and endless sea." --- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (?)
"A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."---Thomas Carruthers
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." ---Dan Rather
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations." --Patricia Neal
"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."---Kahlil Gibran