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“Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.”

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Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.”

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Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.”

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Author:Paulo Freire

“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.”

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Author:Paulo Freire

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.”

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Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”

Doe Knowledge Practice Learning Management

Author:Richard Pascale

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.”

Causes Forget Kindness Learning

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

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Author:Xunzi

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

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Book:Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

Source: Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

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Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.”

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Author:Miriam Defensor Santiago

“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

“The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

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Author:Aristotle

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”

Whole Dies Learning Surprising

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.”

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Author:Robert Updegraff

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”

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Author:Guy Claxton

“Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.”

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Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.”

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Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.”

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Author:Jay Wright Forrester

“If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.”

Ifs Want Learning Risk Teaching Mark

Author:Terrence E. Deal

“We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.”

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Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.”

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Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.”

Learning Fire Fans Wind Candle Snuff

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.”

Learning Sorrow Abandon

Author:Laozi

“All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.”

Knows Needs Learning Teaching Meaningful Life Kindergarten Inner Child

Book:Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door