Some approach heading back to school with a sense of anticipation and excitement. They’ve already color coded their school supplies, picked out their outfit for the first day and gotten up early for a week to make sure they are ready for classes to begin.
Others are a little less enthusiastic. Their school supplies are still in the Target bag, they have no idea what they will wear the first day of school and they’re still sleeping in until 11 a.m.
But heading back to school is an amazing time, whether students are able to recognize it or not. It offers a fresh start each year that most of us don’t get to enjoy once we complete our education. New classes, new clubs and new sports offer opportunities to learn new things and make new friends.
Many of us who don’t have letters after our name attended school for only 18 years of our lives. And yet those years leave a huge impression on us all.
We’ve enjoyed reading what others have had to say about learning — and teaching — and thought you would, too.
“School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.” — Lon Watters
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.” — Tryon Edwards
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” — Chinese proverb
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” — Doris Lessing
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.” — Anatole France
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter DeVries
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees. If you plan is for 100 years, education children.” — Confucius
“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” — Oscar Wilde
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren
“Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.” — unknown
“A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” — Joyce Meyer
