American Educator Quotes

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Adults ask little boys what they want to do when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress. We don't care what women do with their education.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues are often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

Mary Ellen Chase

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.

Catharine Beecher

First the man takes a drink,
Then the drink takes a drink,
Then the drink takes the man!

Edward Rowland Sill

Librarians need to focus not on individual, physical libraries but on the larger networks–physical and digital–of which their libraries are part.

Women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Anna Julia Cooper

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

ever wonder where the circle came from
or who were the first people to use the triangle?
who were the original cultivators of the earth, who used
water of the nile to power minds and machines? what people
created music from instrument and voice and viewed the
building of cities as art and science? who were the
first to love because love contained the secrets of tomorrow?
look at yourselves.

Haki R. Madhubuti

We really seek intelligence not for the answers it may suggest to the problems of life, but because we believe it is life,—not for aid in making the will of God prevail, but because we believe it is the will of God. We love it, as we love virtue, for its own sake, and we believe it is only virtue's other and more precise name.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Abraham Flexner

We must remake the world. The task is nothing less than that.

Mary McLeod Bethune

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Francis Wayland Parker