The greatest sign of success for a teacher . . . is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
--Maria Montessori
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
--Tyron Edwards
Treat people as it they were what they might be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
--Goethe
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
--Linda Conway
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
--W.B. Yeats
