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Children
learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The
great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success
after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as
to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From
birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do
ourselves that we learn. Education
is what's left over when you forget all the things the teachers made
you memorize in school. When you make the finding yourself -- even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light -- you will never forget it. -- Carl Sagan You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -- Galileo The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke The wise teacher does not ask you to enter the house of his wisdom, he leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahil Gibran Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. -- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi The primary aim of mathematical education is to initiate children into the process of mathematics. The mathematical content of course is relatively unimportant. -- Douglas Quadling The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. -- Desiderius Erasmus Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H H Williams Teaching is the highest form of understanding. -- Aristotle If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. -- Norman Douglas When a mind is stretched by a new idea, it never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Unknown We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -- T. S. Eliot Education can not be for students in any authentic way, if it is not of and by them. -- William H. Schubert You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails. -- Anonymous There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. -- Jack Nicklaus The future
is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present,
but a place that is created -- created first in the mind and will, created
next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but
one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the
activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. -- Sir William Bragg It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -- James Thurber The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. -- John Stuart Mill Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous. -- Chinese Proverb Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn. -- Loris Malaguzzi When one teaches, two learn. -- Robert Half One must be a student before one can be a teacher. -- Chinese Proverb We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. -- Frank Herbert Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. -- Isaac Asimov The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. -- Albert Einstein I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. -- Franklin P. Adams It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted. -- L. Conway The principle
goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing
new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. -- John Carolus S.J. There are two kinds of light: the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -- James Thurber Kites ride highest against the wind, not with it. -- Sir Winston Churchill You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up. -- Diane Lane |