Entry 222

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.

Bertrand Russell

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

Anonymous

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

Anatole France