The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
John Dewey:
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education … (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
Robert Fulghum: All I really need to know … I learned in kindergarten.
St. Francis Xavier:
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
