“Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.” HumansProcessHuman BeingsLearningGroupsOrganizationPatterns Author:Tom Johnson
“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.” ChildrenMotherFatherEducationResponsibilityLearningGroupsMankindEducationalAgency Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.” PeopleHumansTogetherYoungEnjoyHuman BeingsExistenceLaughingLearningGroupsMastersCeasePrisonerPupilsBe YoungYoung And OldJailer Book:THE ART OF TEACHING Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.” HappensSchoolStuffGrowthEducationLearningGroupsTeamworkCollaborationCooperationCooperation And Collaboration Author:Ken Robinson
“How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group."” WayHas BeensSchoolLawScienceLearningGroupsPersonalityCivilizationMembersFortunateOperationsAcceptableParticipating Author:Joel Henry Hildebrand
“Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.” ProblemScienceIndividualDifficultLearningGroupsResearchWorkersDeserted Author:Theobald Smith
“It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.” ShouldHas BeensWould BePastChanceLearningGroupsDangerousEventsParticularShould HaveMathematicsMadMathProfessionMathematicalProportionProfessorsShould Have BeenOxfordAdverseHardy Author:John Edensor Littlewood
“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder” IfsPersonsTurnsFallAcceptingClassKnowledgeLearningGroupsInfluenceParticularShapesPrejudiceManagementActiveAgentsToneInteractionBehaviourStereotypeParticipating Author:Peter Senge
“The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.” PeopleWayKnowledgeLearningGroupsTasksManagement Author:Peter Block
“Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.” PeopleWantFirstsFallProcessKnowledgeLearningGroupsConditionsBuildingEssentialsTrainingProgramEarsManagementMeetingsConnectedBlockDeafSmall GroupsConnectednessBuilding BlocksTraining ProgramsDeaf Ears Author:Peter Block