“Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.” UnderstandingBrainFitDiscoveryExcitingMethodEducationalAllowingNeuroscience Author:John Katzman
“There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.” WayMindTwoImportantFactsOpinionTheoryFitAuthorityMethodProofDescriptionAcademicConvenienceTwo WaysScientific MethodScholastics Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.” IndividualGivenFitMethodDiscovering Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.” KnowsWayChildrenMadeGrowsFitDemandAdultsBasesMethodIgnorantMade ItOperationsGears Author:Steven Biko
“the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.” MenAdviceHeroFitMethodTrainNeglectPlatoFind MeDoubtfulAxiomsValidityPower CorruptsPlato S Author:Oswald Mosley
“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.” WantTryingMayDifferentDifficultMaterialsFitDirectorsApproachMethodCrash Author:Antonio Banderas
“When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.” MenWayLongYoungFightingBusinessGoneSpecialFitFairsDoctorsAbuseMethodFellowsAthletePrivilegeTrackCrowdsLawyerPursuitSecureYoung ManCommerceCompetitorsLong WaySummaryBusiness ManOstracism Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company