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“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

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.”

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Book:Organizational behavior: an experiential approach

Source: Organizational behavior: an experiential approach

“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.”

Ends Learning Four Students Fine Type Wine Permit Sponges Flour

Book:The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.”

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Book:Chekhov Plays

Source: Chekhov Plays

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

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Author:Abigail Adams

“I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.”

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Author:Clark Kerr

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”

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Book:The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”

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Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”

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Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.”

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Book:Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

Source: Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

“I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.”

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Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”

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Author:Stephen Brookfield

“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.”

“Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.”

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Author:Ellen Langer

“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”

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Book:Marva Collins Way

Source: Marva Collins Way

“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”

“How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?”

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Author:Vachel Lindsay

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

“Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“He who laughs most, learns best.”

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Author:John Cleese

“The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.”

“When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.”

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Book:The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto

Source: The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto

“Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?”

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Author:Mark Lepper

“Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.”

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Author:Joseph Carroll

“I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.”

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Author:Jack Canfield

“A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.”

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Author:John Goodlad

“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.”

Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

“We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact of alcohol and drug abuse, and we should not, and we cannot, hide from that reality any longer. More and more of our students are demanding that they not be imposed upon by others whose judgment and behavior are impaired by substance abuse. It is time to take a stand.”

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Author:Robert Carothers

“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

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Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.”

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Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.”

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