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“I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.”

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Mathematician, computer science pioneer, and educational technology advocate. Seymour Papert is renowned for his contributions to computer science and mathematics education, particularly in the areas of LOGO programming language and constructivist learning theory. more

“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.”

People Ifs Would Be Care Age Half Cases Doubt Habit Thousand Hundred Doctors Constitution Illness Recovery Former Our Time Latter Discretion Other Half One Half

Author:Petrarch

“The ideal doctor is patient.”

Ideals Doctors Patient

Author:Robert Haven Schauffler

“English physicians kill you, the French let you die.”

Dies Physicians

Author:Charles Lamb

“The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.”

People Men Common Class Physicians Polite Courteous

Author:John of Salisbury

“When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.”

Men Said Dies Causes Natural Disease Doctors Credit

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.”

Sky Titles Battlefields Wwf

Author:Hulk Hogan

“The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.”

Hands Doctors Ancient Punishment Code Surgery Babylon Amputation

Author:L. M. Boyd

“Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.”

Littles Would Be Pay Enemy Judging Doctors Reputation Prisoner Virtuous Trusted Salary Verdict Prosecutor

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.”

People Medicine Patient Profit

Author:George W. Merck

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