All of The SyRIS Quotes About Education

Below is a list of all of the science quotes.

""Science must be taught well, if a student is to understand the coming decades he must live through.""
Isaac Asimov
""Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas.""
Euclid
""Standards Science is inquiry-based learning, not word definitions.""
National Science Education
"Passive leaning is an oxymoron; there is no such thing."
K. Patricia Cross
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
"Lily Tomlin as ""Edith Ann"""
""I remember how he used to teach this idea in the Group Process class back at Brandeis. I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course. Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.""
Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie)
"Teaching is creating situations in which students can escape only by thinking."
Anonymous
"".... above all things we must be aware of what I will call inert 'ideas' _ that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.""
A. N. Whithead
"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."
Confucius
""The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.""
A. N. Whitehead
""...we'll show you that you don't really have to understand anything... When we get through, you may not really understand much ... But you don't have to, and we'll prove it.""
Cracking the SAT II (1999)
""The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ""apparently ordinary"" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.""
K. Patricia Cross
""To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble.""
Mark Twain
"Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples."
W. McKeachie
"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."
Aristotle
"We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved."
Stephen Brookfield
""Teaching: the earth doesn't move every time, but when it does, what a RUSH!""
Cameron Beatty
"A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise the teacher outshines the teachings."
The Tao of Teaching
"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
William Glasser
""Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.""
Confucius
""It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.""
Linda Conway
""A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.""
Plutarch
""Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.""
Albert Einstein
""Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience . . . was disparaged.""
Henry A. Giroux
"Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen."
Ivan Illich
""Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.""
Bertrand Russell
"Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."
Theodore Roszak
"Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense."
Anonymous
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
Claude Bernard
""There is no difference between living and learning. . . it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate. Teaching is human communication and like all communication, elusive and difficult...we must be wary of the feeling that we know what we are doing in class. When we are most sure of what we are doing, we may be closest to being a bore.""
John Holt
""Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . . .""
Barbara Harrell Carson
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcom S. Forbes
" We only think when we are confronted with a problem."
John Dewey
"To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking."
James Bryce
""Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.""
K. Patricia Cross
""The assign, read, recite and test model of teaching places a great deal of emphasis on regurgitation. The problem solving approach which utilizes critical thinking skills presents more of a challenge and releases creativity.""
James Phillips
"The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods."
Margaret Mead
"The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best."
Edmund Burke
"Those who go to college and never get out are called professors."
George Givot
"Teaching is the world's most important job."
UNESCO
""Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.""
William Glasser
""The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ""Eureka!"" but ""That's funny...""""
Isaac Asimov
"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning."
Anonymous
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."
Galileo
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers
"Those who know how to think need no teachers."
Mahatma Gandhi
""A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.""
Anonymous
"Much of what happens in most classes is a waste of everyone's time. It is neither teaching nor learning. It is stenography."
R. Fielder and R. Brent
"Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts."
Anonymous
""The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.""
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them."
Anonymous
""If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.""
Donald D. Quinn
""There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.""
Anonymous
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
Sir William Bragg
"Teachers affect eternity because they never know where their influence will stop."
Mitch Albom
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Henry Adams
""We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.""
Albert Einstein
"Knowledge is not gained by numerous narratives but through following knowledge and using it."
Naguib Mahfouz

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