| 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
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their
hands.
When you teach the children teach 'em the very best you can.
- Harold Melvin, Peace
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 |
