Everyone has a view on education. Every parent and politician has sat in a classroom, so they have a view on what the teacher does or doesn't do. But experience does not always translate into wisdom and understanding.

Happily, we are not short of wisdom that does shine a light on the brilliantly complexity of teaching, learning, and education.

Here are 10 quotes that offer such wisdom:

"After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching...is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented.” Lee Shulman
“Curriculum is like a suitcase. Every time you put something in, you have to take something out.” John Davies

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“Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.” Dylan Wiliam
“Human intelligence is too rare and precious a thing to squander on a haphazard programme of instruction.” Philip H. Phoenix

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“Being attentive and engaged is equated with learning. However, students can be highly motivated and actively engaged in interesting classroom activities, yet not be learning anything new. Learning requires motivation, but motivation does not necessarily lead to learning.” Graham Nuthall

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“Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.” Alfred North Whitehead

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“Instead of seeking bold ideas, grand ideas, creative ideas, or group commitment, we should be doing just the opposite: studying our practices closely and deliberately, deepening our understanding of the circumstances in which we work, and finding small and sustainable ways to improve.” Mary Kennedy

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“For change to succeed, leaders need to focus as much, if not more, on understanding the practices they wish to change as on designing the alternatives they seek to introduce. My reason for this claim is that the hardest part of change is not planning but its implementation because that involves the uncertain and complex process of integrating and aligning the new practices with hundreds of existing practices.” Viviane Robinson

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“The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.” William J. Bennett

10.

"Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.” J. S. Bruner