Quotes by Women Educators

Annie Sullivan

Annie Sprinkle

Mary McLeod Bethune

Anna Leonowens

Sophia Lee

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Frances Willard

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or fail to do it.

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

Mary McLeod Bethune

As I say so often, Observe and wait. Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

Fanny Jackson Coppin

Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously... learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids.

Grace Llewellyn

There are so many New Yorks that you can always find the special one that fits your special pattern.

Lucy Sprague Mitchell

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who 'already differentiates instruction.' Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.

Dorothy Maclean

The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

The use of color in my paintings is of paramount importance to me. Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man.

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

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

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

Charlotte Mason

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

The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn't a character flaw. It's fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

Rosalind Wiseman

A person ignorant of Botany, on beholding the profusion of flowers which adorn the face of nature, would discover general resemblances, and form in his mind some order of arrangement; but the Botanist learns to distinguish the least conspicuous parts of a plant as most important in a system of classification.

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

The Cittie of New York is a pleasant, well compacted place, situated on a Commodius river which is a fine harbour for shipping.... I left New-York with no Little regrett...

Sarah Kemble Knight

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

The habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

The one question that ought to be asked on a teaching application is: do you love children?

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because "class instinct is subjective and spontaneous," the class instinct of the middle classes and "thus of intellectuals" must undergo a painful and "revolutionary" transformation in order to become oppositional—that is, in order to become aligned with the methodology of the oppressed.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Caroline Pratt (educator)