Han Liu -- shippensburg University

Nothing is more unequal than equal treatment of unequal people. (Often accredited to Thomas Jefferson, but said not to be his by those who have researched his works.)

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~Horace Mann

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
--- Bill Cosby

Be quick to praise, slower to criticize. Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
-- Mark Twain

What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher...? It is to be able to say "the children are now working as if I did not exist.
-- Maria Montessori

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
~Elbert Hubbard

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
-- John Keats

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
-- Ignacio Estrada

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~Kahlil Gibran

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

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
~Author Unknown

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
-- Ashley Montague (b. 1905) (American anthropologist)

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
-- John Dewey

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
-- Tyron Edwards