Acting
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Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and you make bad decisions.
Churchill, Sir Winston
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent but change.
Education
Durant, William James American writer (1885-1981)
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
France, Anatole French poet and novelist (1844 - 1924)
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Kraus, Karl Austrian writer andjournalist (1874 - 1936)
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Nigerian Proverb
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
Piaget, Jean Swiss philosopher (1896 - 1980)
The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Savile, George English statesman and author (1633 - 1695)
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
Skinner, B.F. American psychologist, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Socrates
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Updike, John American writer, b.1932
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
Yeats, William Butler Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
Education is not the filling of pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education Effective
Beattie, Bill American manager and coach
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bronowski, Jacob Polish-Jewish British mathematician
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. English writer, philosopher (1874 - 1936)
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Feather, William American publisher and author (1889 - 1981)
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
France, Anatole French poet and novelist (1844 - 1924)
An education isn't how much you have memorized, It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard American educator (1899 - 1977)
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Locke, John English philosopher and physician (1632 - 1704)
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
Lubbock, John English biologist and politician (1834-1913)
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
Solving the problems in education are actually simple. All we need is a dedicated society, knowledgeable politicians and excellent teachers.
Rogers, Carl American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Rohn, Jim American speaker and author
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Russell, Bertrand British philosopher (1872 - 1970)
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
Toynbee, Arnold English economic historian and social reformer (1889-1975)
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Walker, Lou Ann English author, professor
Theories and goals of education don't mean a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
Education Enablers
Brady, Marion American educator
Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm German philologist, philosopher (1844 - 1900)
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Obama, Barack
Cutting the deficit by gutting education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine.
Twain, Mark
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education Innovation
Aldridge, Susan American educator, "Learning Through Technology", CATE 2009
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.
Chivetta, Anthony American Computer Science engineer
The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly.
Rutkowski, Jerzy Polish educator, "Barriers to Innovation in e-Pedagogy", CATE 2010
“Carrot and Stick” is the only effective policy that is able to force teachers to leave their “Classroom Kingdom” … accept innovation in education.
Toffler, Alvin American writer and futurist
The illiterate of the 21st century won't be those who can't read & write but those who can't learn unlearn & relearn.
Education Innovation Technology
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A million computers can't replace one outstanding teacher.
Byron, Tanya British psychologist
The technology itself is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.
Chamberlain, April American educator
Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school.
Gates, Bill
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.
Kapp, Karl American writer and educator
Instructional designers need to run, not walk, away from classroom -thinking and get to the point of providing short, quick business focused learning points that are easily accessible when and where our learners need them. This means leveraging new technologies to deliver non-traditional instruction.
Lanier, Jaron American writer, computer scientist
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults. It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
Lassner, David American educator, "Why Bother? Investments in Education Technologies & Institutional Priorities", CATE 2004
The real power of interactive technologies is that they let us learn in ways that aren’t otherwise possible or practical.
Don’t just ask: What is the role of technology in the classroom? Ask: What is the role of the classroom when we unleash the real power of technology?
Lucas, George
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
Masie, Elliot American educator, editor of Learning TRENDS
E-learning is changing. And, we will see new models, new technologies and designs emerge. So, let’s drop the “e” – or at least give it a new and wider definition.
Mayer, Richard E. American educator, "Elements of a Science of e-Learning", Journal of Educational Computing Research, 29(3): 297-313, 2003
The same design principles that promote learning in traditional environments are likely to promote learning in electronic environments, e-learning has the potential to offer different (and perhaps better) learning opportunities only to the extent that it can enable different instructional methods
Pink, Daniel H. American writer, "A Whole New Mind: Introduction", 2005
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code…. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people… inventors, designers… will now reap society’s richest reward and share its greatest joy.
Rutkowski, Jerzy Polish educator, "Links Between Technology Based Education and Engineering Education Research", CATE 2011
If teachers wish to live in a digital world in which today’s students live, then an immediate attention to the conduct of teaching has to be given, such that both students’ and teachers’ expectations are met.
Technology Enhanced Learning should be used deliberately, taking into account Educational Research, both learning objectives (Bloom's taxonomy) and experiences (Dale's cone). TEL not linked with ER is just art for art’s sake and wasteful spending, ER not linked with TEL is just out-of-date theoretical research and shoddy work, only TEL linked with ER leads to excellence.
Rutkowski, Jerzy Polish educator, "Self-Directed Learning and Flip Teaching", SEFI Conf. 2013
If high level of (students’) Self-Directed Learning Readiness is reached, and only then, great benefits of Technology Enhanced Learning can be obtained.
Thornburg, David American educator, premier futurist in educational technology
Any teacher that can be replaced with a computer, deserves to be.
Warlick, David American educator
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
Education Progress
Euripides
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Diogenes Laertios
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Fisch, Karl American educator
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don't yet exist... In order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
Goddard, John British educator, "Towards World Class National Systems of Civic Universities", 2009
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
Education reform does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. As teachers, positive change has always been our goal.
Shaw, George Bernard
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Knowledge
Abott, Lawrence Lowell American lawyer and educator (1856 - 1943)
There's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge accumulates.
Anonymous
The value of knowledge lies not in its accumulation but in its utilization.
Colton, Charles C. English cleric, writer (1780–1832)
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Fuller, Margaret American journalist (1810 - 1850)
If you have knowledge, let others light their candle by it.
Keller, Helen American author and lecturer (1880 - 1968)
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Lec, Stanisław Jerzy Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Lee, Laurence
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
Plutarch
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
Knowledge Ignorance
Plato
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which are ignorant.
Disraeli, Benjamin British Conservative politician, writer and aristocrat (1804 - 1881)
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Dumas, Alexandre
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid. It must be education that does it.
Durant, William James American writer (1885-1981)
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Hawking, Stephen English physicist
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Knowledge Imagination
Einstein, Albert
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Tibolt, Frank American writer (1897-1989)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action
Knowledge Wisdom
Chekhov, Anton
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Tolstoy, Leo
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Learning Effective
Adler, Mortimer J. American philosopher, educator (1902-2001)
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Alexander, Lloyd Americxan author of fantasy books for children
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Bickford, Bob American novelist
Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional.
Churchill, Sir Winston
Where my reason, imagination, or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Confucius
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Creighton, Bishop Mandell British historian and a bishop (1843 - 1901)
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Learning never exhausts the mind.
D'Angelo, Anthony J. American educator
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow.
Deming, W. Edwards American engineer (1900 -1993)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
Dunne, Finley Peter American writer (July 1867 - 1936)
It doesn't make much difference what you study so long as you hate it.
Einstein, Albert
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Franklin, Benjamin
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Gladwell, Malcolm Canadian journalist, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking", 2005
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Gurdjieff, George Russian educator (1866 - 1949)
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
Heraclitus
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Hickam, Homer American author, Vietnam veteran
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
Iles, George American journalist (1852 - 1942)
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
Illich, Ivan Austrian philosopher (1926 - 2002)
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Kelly, Melissa American educator, “What is the aim of education”, About.com Secondary Eduvcation, 2014
Learning how to learn is one of the key elements of education. Schools need to teach students how to find information they will need once they leave school. Therefore, the specific subject matter being taught is not as important for future personal success as is the ability for students to understand how to find answers for any questions and problems that might arise.
Lenin, Vladimir
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
Maugham, W. Somerset British novelist (1874 - 1965), "The Razor's Edge", 1943
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
Sagan, Carl American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author (1934 - 1996)
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure... Understanding is joyous.
Vensodale, Krissy American educator and blogger (Venspired)
If you have a passion for learning, it will become the drive for everything you do in the classroom.
Learning Experiential
Abercrombie, Joe British fantasy writer, Last Argument of Kings, 2008
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who asks no questions stays a fool forever
Einstein, Albert
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Ionesco, Eugene "Decouvertes"
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Johnson, Vic American author, "Day by Day with James Allen"
In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Roosevelt, Eleanor American UN diplomat, humanitarian and First Lady (1933-45)
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Siemens, George American educator and blogger (ELEARNSPACE)
Learners need to experience confusion...Clarifying this chaos is the heart of learning.
Valez, Rosalie Ledda Spanish education specialist at INLEA
Think out of the box and create a learning experience where the learner can interact with the content and their brains.
Learning Ineffective
Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Learning Lifelong
Bugeja, Michael J. American educator and journalist
Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.
Drucker, Peter F. American educator (1909 - 2005)
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Ebbinghaus, Harmann German psychologis (1850 -1909)
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.
Gardner, Joel American educator
The most effective, successful professionals are constantly learning, they take the time to apply what they have learned, and they continually work to improve themselves.
Haley, William British newspaper editor (1901 - 1987)
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu Indian author, philosopher (1895 - 1986)
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Lee, Robert E. American General (1807 - 1870)
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Santayana, George Spanish philosopher (1863 - 1952)
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Shakespeare, William
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Sophocles
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sussman Yalow, Rosalyn American medical physicist, co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize (1921 - 2011)
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you are learning you're not old.
Twain, Mark
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Vaughan, William E. ("Bill") American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Learning Love Of
John Holt American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
We should turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
The whole being of any Teacher is within our own hearts. Although an education prepares us to teach, it is the love of learning that sustains us.
Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning.
The whole being of any Teacher is within our hearts. Although education prepares us to teach, it is the love of learning that sustains us.
Inventive teachers can create life long learners but a love for learning can not be tested.
Learning Self-directed
Buddhist Proverb
When the student is ready, the master appears.
Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Ching Mok, M. Mo, & Yin Cheong Cheng Chinese educators, "A theory of self-learning in a networked human and IT environment: implications for education reforms", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 15/4, 2001, pp.172 - 186
There is an urgent need to develop a theory that can be used to deepen the process of self-learning and facilitate students becoming highly motivated and effective self-learners with the support of a networked human and IT environment.
Churchill, Sir Winston
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations
Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Gardner, John W. American writer and educator (1912 - 2002)
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
Grow, Gerald O. American educator, "Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed", Adult Education Quarterly, 1991/1996
Self-Directed Learning remains the North Star of adult education.
Knowles, Malcolm S. American educator, "The Modern Practice of Adult Education: From Pedagogy to Andragogy", Prentice Hall, 1980
By 2020 all learning will be based on principles of Self-Directed Learning.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
If we are truly effective teachers, then we are creating autonomous, independent, and self directed learners.
Putre, Laura American educator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, May 2014
Enabling students to cover subject matter outside of class, frees instructors to teach through interactions in the classroom.
Life
King, Marthin Luther
Life's most urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?"
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm German philologist, philosopher (1844 - 1900)
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Oppinion sharing
Dana, Charles A. American businessman, politician (1881-1975)
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
De Montaigne, Michel French philosopher (1533–1592)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Tynan, Kenneth English theatre critic (1927-1980)
Certainly everyone is entitled to have an opinion, but NOT everyone is entitled to have his opinion taken seriously.
Vaughan, William E. ("Bill") American columnist and author (1915 - 1977), The Milwaukee Journal 1959
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say, unless you insist on saying it.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
White, T. H. English author, novelist (1906 - 1964)
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
Research
Baruch, Bernard Mannes American financier (1870 - 1965)
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Chaon, Dan American writer
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
Churchill, Sir Winston
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Cropley, A. J. American educator
The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking.
Dobie, J. Frank American folklorist, writer (1888 - 1964)
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Einstein, Albert
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
Hazelkorn, Ellen Irish educator, "Teaching, Research & Engagement: Strenghtening the Knowledge Triangle", SIRUS project workshop, 2010
Nowadays, research is conducted through inter-regional and global networks - Complex problems require collaborative solutions.
Plutarch
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Voltaire
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Wright, Steven A. American comedian, actor and writer, b. 1955
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Success
Ashe, Arthur
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Berra, Yogi American baseball player
If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else.
Churchill, Sir Winston
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Gerrard, Brad
Believe in yourself, be strong, never give up no matter what the circumstances are. You are a champion and will overcome the dreaded obstacles. Champions take failure as a learning opportunity, so take in all you can, and run with it. Be your best and don't ever ever give up.
Gorki, Maxim
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is a slavery.
Hall, Barbara American writer, Northern Exposure - Rosebud, 1993
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Keller, Helen American author and lecturer (1880 - 1968)
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Teaching Effecive
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Teachers plant seeds of knowledge that will grow forever.
We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living.
Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Buddhist Proverb
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
Churchill, Sir Winston
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Collins, Marva American educator
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers too, have failed
Edwards, Tryon American theologian (1809–1894)
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 fill it with the accumulation of others.
Einstein, Albert
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo American essayist (1803 - 1882)
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
France, Anatole French poet (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 1881
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Godwin, Gail K. American novelist
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Guyan, Matthew Australian educator
Think about what your learners need to do with that information after the course is finished and design around that.
Hayakawa, S. I. American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry (1906 - 1992)
...students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life...
Hayden, Scott American educator
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Japanese Proverb
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Kiam, Victor Kermit American entrepreneur (1926 - 2001)
I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
A great teacher is someone who can learn from his students, who can learn with them, and learns for them.
All teachers who have had consistent success in the classroom understand that it is not enough merely to dispense information.
We must shift the focus of our classrooms from obedience to understanding.
The highest respect should go to those teachers who let their actions rise above other teachers' excuses.
Great classrooms are characterized by positive, open relationships, mutual respect, and a shared responsibility for the learning process.
Teachers must create an environment for students where their past failures are irrelevant to the learning occurring in their classrooms.
Our achievements as teachers are shaped by the climate of our classrooms and the strength of our preparation.
Great classrooms are characterized by positive, open relationships, mutual respect, and a shared responsibility for the learning process.
It shouldn't matter how slowly a child learns as long as we are encouraging them not to stop.
Don't struggle to be a better teacher than everybody else. Simply be a better teacher than you ever thought you could be.
A well prepared and engaging teacher is a catalyst... a spark that creates the desire to learn in our students.
Montagu(e), Ashley American anthropologist and educator (1905 - 1999)
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
Montessori, Maria Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher, is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist".
Papert, Seymour A. American writer and educator
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Rollins, Alice Wellington American author (1847 - 1897)
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
Russell, Bertrand British philosopher (1872 - 1970)
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
Shaffer, Robert H. American educator, pioneer in the field of college student personnel and student affairs
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
Skow, John
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
Sornson, Bob American educator, founder of the Early Learning Foundation
Teachers that love to teach, create students that love to learn.
Storz, Justin
Your passion as a teacher must be students, not school. Anything else is a road to burnout.
Szasz, Thomas American psychiatrist and academic (1920 - 2012)
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Tyler, Ralph American educator who worked in the field of assessment and evaluation (1902 - 1994)
Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.
Whitaker, Todd C. American educator
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
Teaching Ineffective
Forster, Edward Morgan English novelist (1879 - 1970)
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Gardner, John W. American writer and educator (1912 - 2002)
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
L’Engle, Madeleine American writer (1918 - 2007)
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Mann, Horace US educator, the first great American advocate of public education (1796-1859)
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
Demanding that students test well in the absence of appropriate resources is disheartening for teachers and disastrous for students.
Children think learning is filling in answer bubbles. The experience of learning has been replaced by multiple choice tests.
Even the most talented teacher cannot be fully successful in a dysfunctional system over which they have little control or input.
Putt, Archibald pseudonym of American R&D expert, "Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat", 1981
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Rosseau, Jean Jacques Swiss philosopher, writer (1712 - 1778)
We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.
Sellar, W.C., & R.J. Yeatman British humorists, "And Now All This", 1932
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
Senge, Peter M. American educator, senior lecturer at the MIT
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
Shaw, George Bernard
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
Teaching Innovation
Chinese Proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Corder, Nicholas American educator, "Learning to Teach Adults: An Introduction", Routledge 2002, p.xii
The best teachers think about what they are doing all the time. Their styles may differ wildly, but they have in common that they are thinking teachers who are always looking for new approaches and ideas and who listen to their students.
Dewey, John American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.
English Proverb
You can not teach an Old Dog new tricks.
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes internationally recognized American education leader
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.
McDonald, Sir Claude Maxwell British diplomat (1852 - 1915)
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
Mead, Margaret American anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.
Carolus S. J., John
We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.
Darwin, Charles
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Gardner, John W. American writer and educator (1912 - 2002)
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder how we could tolerated anything so primitive.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
Changing the way we teach is a lot easier than changing the way students learn.
Education reform does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. As teachers, change has always been our goal.
Striggins, Rick American educator
Explaining the intended learning in student-friendly terms at the outset of a lesson is the critical first step in helping students know where they are going.
Teaching Innovation Technology
Kassebaum, Nancy U.S. Senator
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
Krueger, Keith R. American educator, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership, and parental involvement.
Teaching Learning
Beechick, Ruth British teacher-writer (1925 - 2013)
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Carolus S. J., John
No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.
Collins, Phil
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Dana, John Cotton American librarian (1856 - 1929)
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Freire, Paulo Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921 - 1997)
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
As a teacher you have to be committed to learning for a lifetime first before you can lead your students down that path.
The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives.
If real learning is to take place, our classrooms must be dependent on the collaboration of its learners, not solely on the knowledge of its teachers.
Often we do a greater amount of good when we "listen" to our students than when we "teach" them.
Ohler, Jason American educator
If you don't love learning yourself, then please, do the students of the world a favor: don't teach.
Ward, William Arthur American writer (1921 - 1994)
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
Teaching Tests
Bower, Joe American educator
Those that make test scores and grades the heart of education hit their targets while entirely missing the point.
Standardized Testing tells us about learning as much as Reality TV tells us about reality.
Meehan, Robert John American educator
A student's progress should be measured in terms of the questions they are asking, not merely by the answers that they are reciting.
It's tragic that we are mandated to turn so many eager young learners into frustrated test performers.
Authentic student achievement cannot be measured by test scores but in the small day to day moments of our students’ individual triumphs.
Exemplary teachers will always care more about the people their students will become than the scores on the tests they take.
The purpose of education is to enlighten the student as to how to use their own mind, rather than to fill it with facts for a test.
Theory & Practice
Anonymous
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. Around here, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.
Berra, Yogi American baseball player
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Van de Snepscheut, Jan L. A. Dutch computer scientist and educator (1953 - 1994)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is (attributed also to Yogi Berra).
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