Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. -Josef Albers

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -Jacob Bronowski

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. -John Carolus

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. -Chinese proverb

It is supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Albert Einstein

Education is a man’s going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. -Kenneth G. Johnson

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility… -Howard Lester

Education…beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men – the balance wheel of the social machinery…. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. -Horace Mann

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. -Plutarch

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -Thomas Carruthers

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. -Edith Ann

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. -Peter Cochrane

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self- confidence. -Robert Frost

Good writing is rewriting. -Truman Capote

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write write. -Ernest Gaines

The problem is to teach ourselves to think, and the writing will take care of itself. -Christopher Mobley

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. -Quintilian

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into new land. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell

The pen is the tongue of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. -Arthur C. Clarke

I write to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I don’t want and what I fear. -Joan Didion

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? -E.M. Forster

The human mind is like an umbrella. It functions best when open. -Max Gropius

Stupidity is no excuse for not thinking. -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing. -Jean Malaquais

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. -Anais Nin

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain

The brain that doesn’t feed itself, eats itself. -Gore Vidal

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde

Writing is thinking on paper. -William Zinsser

If you think of the Internet as a place to “look up stuff” you’re missing the best part.

Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them.” -Barbara Harrell Carson

Merely looking at a stranger’s Twitter or Facebook feed isn’t interesting, because it seems like blather. Follow if for a day, though, and it begins to feel like a short story; follow it for a month, and it’s a novel. NY Times

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. -Ben Sweetland

I touch the future, I teach. -Christa McAuliffe