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The path to improved performance in teaching does not lie in excusing one’s shortcomings as beyond influence.
Milton Hildebrand
Monday, June 11, 2007
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The path to improved performance in teaching does not lie in excusing one’s shortcomings as beyond influence.
Milton Hildebrand
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In seeking knowledge, the first step in silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth – teaching others.
-Ibn Gabirol
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
- Josef Albers
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
"You don't begin to really learn something until you have to teach it." Me
Here are some of my favorites:
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates
"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." John Adams
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Arthur Ward.
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." Gail Godwin
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
Oscar Wilde
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
-T.H. White, The Once and Future King
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into
account not only the world as it is but also the world as it will be."
Isaac Asimov, Russian biochemist and author (1920-1992)
"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
-lawrence clark powell
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound
ourselves -thomas a. edison
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then
there'd be peace" John Lennon
"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do
nothing there will be no result." Mahatma Gandhi
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people
to do nothing." Edmund Burke
"You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To
change something, build a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete." Buckminster Fuller
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose
sight of the shore." Andre Gide
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really
living." Gail Sheehy
"Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were
looking back on it." General Peter Schoomaker
"With our thoughts we make the world." Buddha
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself." Leo Tolstoy
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." Victor Hugo
"Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers." Unknown
"To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no
exceptions." William James
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain
"It is change continuing change, inevitable change, that is the
dominant factor in society today." Isaac Asimov
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to
learn ... and change." Carl Rogers
"It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot
"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human
beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the
outer aspects of their lives." William James
"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life." Alvin Toffler
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret
Mead
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever." Gandhi
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Peter F. Drucker
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world." The Buddha
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not
a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved." William
Jennings Bryant
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat
of habit by originality, overcomes everything." George Lois
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
(Source Unknown)
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can
influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,
and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples,
wasted resources, corruption, and terror." (James D. Wolfensohn in "A
Better World Is Possible," July-Aug 2003) The Futurist Quote of the
Year
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade,
plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people."
Chinese proverb: Guanzi (c. 645BC)
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is,
in fact, a return to the idealized past." Robertson Davies, "A Voice
from the Attic", 1960
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world." Nelson Mandela
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as
long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." George
Bernard Shaw
"Dare to be naive." Buckminster Fuller
"At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully?
Did I love well?" Jack Kornfield
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
others." Mahatma Gandhi
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin
Toffler
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is
favorable." Seneca
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was
loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our
ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Native American Proverb
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
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