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“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

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.”

World Giving Form Learning Media Style Willing Victory Perception Gains Slave Therapy Shopping Giving Back Be A Slave

Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness. We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.”

Needs May Book Form Understanding Numbers Poverty Learning Too Much Awareness Letting Go Caring

Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris

“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

Thinking Writing Matter Form Language Learning Speech Dresses English Language

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

Mind Form Common Education Learning Tree Birthday Graduation Bent Art Education Twigs Knowledge Education Education And Knowledge

Author:Alexander Pope

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”

Form Learning Imitation Flattery

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.”

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”

Source: Elective Affinities

“This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.”

Life Has Beens Form Science Order Creativity Learning Generations Keys Development Evolution Property Critical Spontaneous Emergence Hallmark Instability

Book:The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

Source: The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

“The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.”

Use Form Technology Learning Teaching Identity University Scales Location Civics

Author:John Goddard

“I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.”

Ifs Children Done Form Learning Bird Harm Superiors Eggs Sincerely Arrivals Mockingbird

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.”

Form Learning Teaching Intense Application Association Stamps Ordeals Cramming

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.”

Life Mean Doe Self Form Desire Suffering Causes Compassion Learning Brother Illusion Equality Breathing Separateness Unawareness

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"”

Knows Want Matter Form Universe Dark Learning Students Compromise Candidates Programming Bias Particles Turner Dark Matter

Author:Richard P. Feynman