Quotes by Women Educators

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

Frances Willard

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

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

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

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

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

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life,

Henrietta Mears

What is important is for each individual to order her life so that she becomes a happy, creative person.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

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.

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

Mary McLeod Bethune

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

Charlotte Mason

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

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

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. But to go in here is to enter where my own suffering exists as an almost unheard low note in the music, amplified, almost unbearable.

Minnie Bruce Pratt

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.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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

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.