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"Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living." - John Dewey

"Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: Education for living and educating for making a living." - James Mason Wood
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"What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul." - Joseph Addison, 1711

"How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and unknown." - Vachel Lindsay

"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop
playing." - Anonymous

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"While we teach, we learn." - Seneca "

"To teach is to learn." - Japanese Proverb

"Teaching is the highest form of understanding." -Aristotle

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is a learner." - Elbert Hubbard in biographical sketch of Friedrich Froebel

"To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein

"We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to re-experience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved." - Stephen Brookfield

"The best learners...often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them." - Stephen Brookfield

"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 himself believes to be of value." - Bertrand Russell

"The teachers who get 'burned out' are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times." - Frank Smith

"It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted." - Linda Conway

"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." - Plutarch

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: It is in making winners out of ordinary people." - Pat Cross

"Teaching = helping someone else learn." -L. Dee Fink

"Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples." - W. McKeachie

"Thought flows in terms of stories--stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story- tellers. We learn in the form of stories." - Frank Smith

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre." - Gail Godwin

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
- 'old Chinese proverb'

"Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning." -D.B. Gowin, 1981, Educating.

"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three." - Confucius

"The secret of education is respecting the pupil." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"'Students learn what they care about...,' Stanford Ericksen has said, but Goethe knew something else: 'In all things we learn only from those we love.' Add to that Emerson's declaration: 'the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.' and we have a formula something like this: 'Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and
who, they know, care about them...'" - Barbara Harrell Carson, 1996,
Thirty Years of Stories

"The lasting measure of good teaching is what the individual student learns and carries away." - Barbara Harrell Carson, 1996, Thirty Years of Stories


"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is being educated."
- Edith Hamilton

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper." - Robert Frost

"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller

"Education is the art of making man ethical." - George Hegel, 1821

"The verb to know used to mean having information stored in one's memory. It now means the process of having access to information and knowing how to use it." - Herbet Simon, Nobel Laureate.

"It's not what you know, it's how fast you can access all the things you don't know. And if you get that time down to a few seconds, then you effectively know everything." - Thomas Stewart, Editor or the Harvard Business Review.


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