For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
When you stop learning you stop growing.
Education is not a privilege, it is a right!
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
Education is freedom.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.
The expert at anything was once a beginner.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.