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“If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.”

Ifs Education Failing Exercise Blind Instruction Imperfect Assistance

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.”

Should Process Education Failing Depends Performances Excellence Financial Educational Aids Incentives Financial Aid

Author:John H. Sununu

“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.”

Doe Education Responsibility Failing Awareness Students Obligation Social Responsibility Pointing Implementation

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

Men World Needs Art Science Causes Education Teach Failing Failure Educated Disgrace Educated Man

Author:Charles Kettering

“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

People Firsts Action Education Principles Failing Righteous Virtuous Principal

Author:Martin Luther

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”

World Passion Peace Results Education Failing Empowerment Caring Peaceful Empowering Coexistence Wise Women Peaceful Life Peaceful Coexistence

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Success Education Failing Vain Idiot

Book:Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)

Source: Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works

“Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.”

Imagination Education Failing Teaching Intelligence Endless Meaningless Procession

Book:Mathematician's Delight

Source: Mathematician's Delight

“Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”

“There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.”