Thursday, August 04, 2005

interesting educational quotes

mep - thought you might enjoy these since you love quotes!

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill"

The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience. - Carl Rogers

The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach bid you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. - Kahlil Gilbran

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde

What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand. - Confucius

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke

Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) - Descartes

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

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. - John Adams

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

The paradox of education is precisely this-- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. - James Baldwin

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - Richard Henry Dann

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. - Lee Iacocca

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

1 comment:

mep said...

I like the quotes. My personal favorite is one I found several years ago.. "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." Edith Sitwell. Usually, if I encountered such a situation.. I would just point to it on my board. The other one is an original from one of my best friends at school- David Adams- fellow history teacher. He always said, "You can kill 'em but you can't eat 'em, that's against the law." One final inspirational quote for you when times seems dreary.. "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit." See you guys tomorrow.