Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
A teacher should have a creative mind.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
Enter to learn; depart to serve.
The Library is the heart of the University.
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they’re learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.