Quotes on Teaching, Learning & Technology in Education

Abercrombie, Joe I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

Aldridge, Susan The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

Alexander, Lloyd We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Anonymous Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. Around here, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.

Beechick, Ruth A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Berra, Yogi If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else.
Berra, Yogi In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Byron, Tanya The technology itself is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Chamberlain, April Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school.

Chinese Proverb Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Ching Mok, M. Mo, & Yin Cheong Cheng There is an urgent need to develop a theory that can be used to deepen the process of self-learning and facilitate students becoming highly motivated and effective self-learners with the support of a networked human and IT environment.

Chivetta, Anthony The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly.

Churchill, Winston Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Churchill, Winston Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Churchill, Winston However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Churchill, Winston It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Churchill, Winston It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Churchill, Winston Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Churchill, Winston We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Churchill, Winston It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Collins, Marva Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers too, have failed.

Collins, Phil In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Corder, Nicholas The best teachers think about what they are doing all the time. Their styles may differ wildly, but they have in common that they are thinking teachers who are always looking for new approaches and ideas and who listen to their students.

Creighton, Bishop Mandell The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Da Vinci, Leonardo Learning never exhausts the mind.

De Montaigne, Michel I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Deming, W. Edwards Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Dewey, John If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.

Diogenes Laertios The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Dobie, J. Frank The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Dumas, Alexandre How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid. It must be education that does it.

Dunne, Finley Peter It doesn't make much difference what you study so long as you hate it.

Durant, Will Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Ebbinghaus, Harmann Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

Edwards, Tryon The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Einstein, Albert I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

English Proverb You can not teach an Old Dog new tricks.

Euripides Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

France, Anatole The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Gardner, John W. 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.

Gates, Bill Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.

Gerrard, Brad Believe in yourself, be strong, never give up no matter what the circumstances are. You are a champion and will overcome the dreaded obstacles. Champions take failure as a learning opportunity, so take in all you can, and run with it. Be your best and don't ever ever give up.

Gladwell, Malcolm We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Goddard, John The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

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

Gorki, Maxim When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is a slavery.

Grow, Gerald O. Self-Directed Learning remains the North Star of adult education.

Gurdjieff, George A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Hall, Barbara The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Hayakawa, S. I. ...students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that the may be prepared for life...

Hazelkorn, Ellen Nowadays, research is conducted through inter-regional and global networks - Complex problems require collaborative solutions.

Henderson, L.L. Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Heraclitus Much learning does not teach understanding.

Hutchins, Robert M. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Iles, George Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Illich, Ivan Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Jacobs, Heidi Hayes Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

Kapp, Karl Instructional designers need to run, not walk, away from classroom-thinking and get to the point of providing short, quick business focused learning points that are easily accessible when and where our learners need them. This means leveraging new technologies to deliver non-traditional instruction.

Kassebaum, Nancy There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Keller, Helen Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Keller, Helen Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
Keller, Helen When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Keller, Helen Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowles, Malcolm S. By 2020 all learning will be based on principles of Self-Directed Learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krueger, Keith R. It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership, and parental involvement.

Lassner, David The real power of interactive technologies is that they let us learn in ways that aren’t otherwise possible or practical.
Lassner, David Don’t just ask: What is the role of technology in the classroom? Ask: What is the role of the classroom when we unleash the real power of technology?

Lee, Robert E. The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Locke, John The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

Lubbock, John Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Lucas, George Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

Maugham, W. Somerset You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Mayer, Richard E. The same design principles that promote learning in traditional environments are likely to promote learning in electronic environments, e-learning has the potential to offer different (and perhaps better) learning opportunities only to the extent that it can enable different instructional methods.

Nehru, Jawaharlal Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Ohler, Jason If you don't love learning yourself, then please, do the students of the world a favor: don't teach.

Papert, Seymour A. 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.

Piaget, Jean The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Pink, Daniel H. The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code…. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people… inventors, designers… will now reap society’s richest reward and share its greatest joy.

Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.

Putre, Laura Enabling students to cover subject matter outside of class, frees instructors to teach through interactions in the classroom.

Putt, Archibald Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Rohn, Jim Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Rosseau, Jean Jacques We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.

Russell, Bertrand Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Santayana, George The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Savile, George Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Sellar, W.C., & R.J. Yeatman For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.

Skinner, B.F. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Skow, John The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

Socrates Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Szasz, Thomas A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thornburg, David Any teacher that can be replaced with a computer, deserves to be.

Tibolt, Frank We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Toynbee, Arnold The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Twain, Mark Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.

Warlick, David We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

Yeats, William Butler Education is not the filling of pail, but the lighting of a fire.