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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
Sep 29, 2025
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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