The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. — Marva Collins

Learning isn’t something that happens to individual children — separate selves at separate desks. Children learn with and from one another in a caring community, and that’s true of moral as well as academic learning. — Alfie Kohn

A high school guidance counselor confided that people like me {with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder} ended up flipping burgers. That prediction did not come true; I eventually graduated from Brown University with an honors degree in literature and published a book, in part about my experiences. — Jonathan Mooney

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. — John Lubbock

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. — William Arthur Ward

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

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. — Roger Lewin

Progressive educators are concerned with helping children become not only good learners but also good people. Schooling isn’t seen as being about just academics, nor is intellectual growth limited to verbal and mathematical proficiencies. — Alfie Kohn

Education reform movements are often based on the fast food model of quality assurance: on standardization and conformity. What’s needed is a much higher standard of provision based on the principles of personalized learning for every child and of schools customizing their cultures to meet local circumstances. Sir Ken Robinson — Sir Ken Robinson

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. — Rabindranath Tagore

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. — Henry L. Doherty

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. — Leo Buscaglia

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. — Bill Beattie

People, as opposed to products, have hopes and aspirations, feelings and purposes. Education is a personal process. What and how young people are taught has to engage their energies, imaginations and their different ways of learning. — Sir Ken Robinson

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. — Clay P. Bedford

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. — Albert Einstein