The big picture...

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. -Jean Piaget

I love this.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.-- Clay P. Bedford

So true

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. - St. Augustine

Another great one to live by

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.-- Anonymous

That's what I'm tryin' to say

"Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions." -- William Allin

Think about this one...

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.-- Plato

Read it again. Makes sense, huh?