| What attracts students
to the study of a foreign language is not its appearance as
an abstruse code saying the very same things that are said more
simply in their mother tongue, but, rather, the opening up of
a new world by the foreign language.
- Jackie-Ann Ross, New Zealand's Educational TV, Word
of the Day
If I refused to learn from people unless I agreed with everything
they had ever said and done, I would never learn from anyone.
- Rob Brezsny, Pronoia
Teach the teachers.
- Popular expression.
The more we know, the more we discover our ignorance. And when
it comes to turning knowledge into power, we are playing catch
up.
- Harrison Owen, The
Practice of Peace
How do babies learn about gravity? By dropping things.
- Paul Orfalea, Copy
This
The more we know, the more we discover our ignorance. And when
it comes to turning knowledge into power, we are playing catch
up.
- Harrison Owen, The
Practice of Peace
Think of what you're teaching.
- Conversation
Wisdom is the power to play with opposites.
- Robert Assagioli, quoted in what
we may be
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold
two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain
the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keep your options open.
- Conversation
Knowledge is not the conformity of the mind to the given, but
an immersion in the process of transformation and construction
of a new world.
- Gustavo Gutierrez, quoted in Original
Blessing
Question authority. And if authority answers, listen
- Conversation
Without context, a piece of information is just a dot. It floats
in your brain with a lot of other dots and doesn't mean a damn
thing. Knowledge is information-in-context -- connecting the
dots.
- Michael Ventura, Letters
at 3AM
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
- William Yeats
By asking questions you become more knowledgeable.
- Ben Evans, BBC
Interview
Do not confine your children to your own learning for they
were born in another time.
- Hebrew proverb, quoted in Sunbeams
Question authority.
- Proverb
If authority answers, will you listen?
- Proverb |
