He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

To teach is to learn twice over.

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

He [the schoolmaster] is awkward, and out of place, in the society of his equals. Fie comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.