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A SWEET DISCOVERY AT DISCOVERY PLACE
Math prodigy corrects Discovery Place
Exhibit pulled after boy shows it doesn't add up
PETER SMOLOWITZ
psmolowitz@charlotteobserver.com

Part of the new exhibit on candy has been removed from Discovery Place. And you can thank Parker Garrison.

When the 8-year-old math whiz at Charlotte Christian visited the "Jelly Belly Presents Candy Unwrapped" display, he accepted the challenge: Use equations to calculate how many jelly beans were in a pyramid and other containers.

His mother, Donna, didn't want to wait while he tried all the formulas. So she copied the numbers he needed, and he took the problems home.

That's when he realized something was wrong.

For years, Parker has amazed his parents and teachers with his math skills. When he was 3, his parents could tell him which coins they had in their pocket, and he'd add the total in his head.

And when he was in first grade, he competed against third-graders in the math olympics. He would have finished second -- except he wasn't old enough to officially participate.

But that day in the family's south Charlotte home, his mom still wasn't sure what to think when Parker told her there was an error in the pyramid formula.

You made a mistake, she remembers saying.

No, I did it three times, he replied. And I know why it doesn't work out.

The equation mistakenly called for dividing the correct answer in half. Parker's father, Jim, called Discovery Place.

After the museum figured out who should handle the call, Dean Briere, a shocked vice president, decided to investigate.

An hour later, Briere called back.

The exhibit had traveled to eight cities in four years.

"And no one found this mistake -- I just couldn't believe it," Briere said.

The equations were developed at the Ontario Science Center, a museum similar to Discovery Place. The Canada museum will likely mail a new display for the pyramid to Charlotte by the end of the month, Briere said.

Some of Parker's math ability is genetic. His mother used to work in nuclear medicine. His father has a background in industrial engineering and now works as a loan officer.

But Dale Koch, who has worked with Parker at Charlotte Christian and started teaching in 1962, said he has never seen anyone like the boy.

"It's a gift that, for some reason, God gave him," Koch said.

Parker agrees. He says some day he'd like to be a meteorologist or work with reptiles and amphibians.

But his parents say they're careful not to push him at the expense of his childhood. Like many third-graders, he likes SpongeBob SquarePants and Jimmy Neutron.

He still takes an advanced math course. But this year, he also asked to take classes again with students his age.

Find the Error

Eight-year-old Parker Garrison discovered an error in an equation at Discovery Place that asked visitors to calculate how many jelly beans are in a pyramid-shaped container. Here's what he discovered:

ORIGINAL PROBLEM

A jelly bean has a volume of about 1 cubic cm.This container is half a pyramid.

Its base measures 46 cm by 23 cm and its height is 72 cm.

Here's the formula to find the volume: 1/3 x base area x height.

Now divide your answer by 2 since this is half a pyramid.

Now multiply your answer by 0.9 to account for spaces between the jelly beans.

The answer should be 22,853.

THE ERROR

The base measurements given were already for half the pyramid, so there was no need to divide the answer by 2.

2/6/07

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Adversity cause some men to break
and other to break records.
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Great minds have purpose
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It is easier to move a cemetary than
change school curriculum.
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There must be a thing as a child with
an average ability
But you can't find a parent who will admit
that is their child.
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Start a program for gifted children and
every parent demand that his child be enrolled.
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If we think about our own lives, we'll remember
how much we learned from those who encouraged us.
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the parents better is because it helps me to forgive
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Teacher is not a lost art, but the regard
for it is a lost tradition
- Jacques Barzun

The greatest failure in education?
When a student's response is:
"I don't know and I don't care."
- Unknown

I've never learned anything while I was talking.
- Larry King

Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't.
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No one ever became wise by change.
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We are all in this alone.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
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if you get off the thing he was schooled in.
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if they don't give a care who gets the credit.
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people who will ever remember them.
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We teach who we are.
= John Gardner

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Wear your learning,
like your watch,
in a private pocket:
and do not pull it out
and strike it,
merely to show
that you have one.

Earl of Chesterfield 1774

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams 1780

There is IQ and I Will.

Education Quote Beatrice Skinner

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186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

EDUCATION Sticker Bumber

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Children have never been any good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

Education Quote James Baldwin

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AN EDUCATION ----
Four friends went up to Dallas for a party the weekend before finals. After the party, they slept all Sunday and didn't make it back to Austin until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their professor after the final and explain to him why they missed it. They said they went to Dallas for the weekend with the plan to come back and study. Unfortunately, they had a flat tire on the way back, didn't have a spare, and couldn't get help for a while. The Professor thought it over and said they could make up the final the following day. They studied that night and went in the next day. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet, and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, worth 5 points. It was something simple. "Cool," they thought at the same time, each one in this separate room. "This is going to be easy." Each finished the problem and then turned the page. On the second page was written: (For 95 points): Which tire?

Education Story

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You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

Education Quote Marva Collins

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You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

Education Quote Galileo Galilei

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When you know something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say that you don't know. That is knowledge."

Education Quote Confucius

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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.


Education Quote Confucius

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Education Quote Lao Tzu

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.

Education Quote Confucius

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think .

Education Quote Socrates

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Education is the best provision for old age.

Education Quote Aristotle

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What is the difference between school and life?

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.

In life, you're given a test
that teaches you a lesson.

Education Quote Tom Bodett

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It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Education Quote Malcolm Forbes

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If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

Education Quote Gerald D. Ford

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You can’t teach an egg to fly....

Education Quote Jo-Ellen Forrest

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.

Education Quote Gail Godwin

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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Education Quote Robert Half

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A great teacher never strives to explain his vision — he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Education Quote Rev. R Inman

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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Education Quote Lady Bird Johnson

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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Education Quote Michelangelo

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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

Education Quote John Skow

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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Education Quote Socrates

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

Education Quote H. Wells

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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Education Quote Eartha Kitt

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By: John S. Taylor,
Superintendent of Schools for the Lancaster County School District
The Best Dentist
"Absolutely" the Best Dentist
My dentist is great! He sends me reminders so I don't forget checkups. He uses the latest techniques based on research. He never hurts me, and I've got all my teeth, so when I ran into him the other day, I was eager to see if he'd heard about the new state program. I knew he'd think it was great.
"Did you hear about the new state program to measure effectiveness of dentists with their young patients?" I said.
"No," he said. He didn't seem too thrilled. "How will they do that?"
"It's quite simple," I said. "They will just count the number of cavities each patient has at age 10, 14, and 18 and average that to determine a dentist's rating. Dentists will be rated as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average, and Unsatisfactory. That way parents will know which are the best dentists. It will also encourage the less effective dentists to get better, " I said.
"Poor dentists who don't improve could lose their licenses to practice.
"
"That's terrible," he said.
"What? That's not a good attitude," I said. "Don't you think we should try to improve children's dental health in this state?"
"Sure I do," he said, "but that's not a fair way to determine who is practicing good dentistry."
"Why not?" I said. "It makes perfect sense to me."
"Well, it's so obvious," he said. "Don't you see that dentists don't all work with the same clientele; so much depends on things we can't control? For example," he said, "I work in a rural area with a high percentage of patients from deprived homes, while some of my colleagues work in upper middle class neighborhoods. Many of the parents I work with don't bring their children to see me until there is some kind of problem and I don't get to do much preventive work. Also," he said, "many of the parents I serve let their kids eat way too much candy from an early age, unlike more educated parents who understand the relationship between sugar and decay. To top it all off," he added, "so many of my clients have well water which is untreated and has no fluoride in it. Do you have any idea how much difference early use of fluoride can make?"
"It sounds like you're making excuses," I said. I couldn't believe my dentist would be so defensive. He does a great job.
"I am not!" he said. "My best patients are as good as anyone's, my work is as good as anyone's, but my average cavity count is going to be higher than a lot of other dentists because I chose to work where I am needed most."
"Don't' get touchy," I said.
"Touchy?" he said. His face had turned red and from the way he was clenching and unclenching his jaws, I was afraid he was going to damage his teeth. "Try furious. In a system like this, I will end up being rated average, below average, or worse. My more educated patients who see these ratings may believe this so-called rating actually is a measure of my ability and proficiency as a dentist. They may leave me, and I'll be left with only the most needy patients. Any my cavity average score will get even worse. On top of that, how will I attract good dental hygienists and other excellent dentists to my practice if it is labeled below average?"
"I think you are overreacting," I said. " 'Complaining, excuse making and stonewalling won't improve dental health'...I am quoting from a leading member of the DOC," I noted.
"What's the DOC?" he asked.
"It's the Dental Oversight Committee," I said, "a group make up of mostly laypersons to make sure dentistry in this state gets improved."
"Spare me," he said, "I can't believe this. Reasonable people won't buy it," he said hopefully.
The program sounded reasonable to me, so I asked, "How else would you measure good dentistry?"
"Come watch me work," he said. "Observe my processes."
"That's too complicated and time consuming," I said.
"Cavities are the bottom line, and you can't argue with the bottom line. It's an absolute measure."
"That's what I'm afraid my parents and prospective patients will think. This can't be happening," he said despairingly.
"Now, now," I said, "don't despair. The state will help you some."
"How?" he said.
"If you're rated poorly, they'll send a dentist who is rated excellent to help straighten you out," I said brightly.
"You mean," he said, "they'll send a dentist with a wealthy clientele to show me how to work on severe juvenile dental problems with which I have probably had much more experience? Big help."
"There you go again," I said. "You aren't acting professionally at all."
"You don't get it," he said. "Doing this would be like grading schools and teachers on an average score on a test of children's progress without regard to influences outside the school, the home, the community served and stuff like that. Why would they do something so unfair to dentists? No one would ever think of doing that to schools."
I just shook my head sadly, but he had brightened. "I'm going to write my representatives and senator," he said. "I'll use the school analogy-surely they will see the point."
He walked off with that look of hope mixed with fear and suppressed anger that I see in the mirror so often lately.

Education Story John Taylor

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SPARKY
From Chicken Soup for the Tennage Soul
by Jack Canfield, Mark Hanse, and Kimberly Kirberger © 1997 Health Communications, Inc.
pp.192-193

For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eight grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra and English. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he did manage to make the school’s golf team, he promptly lost the only important match of the season. There was a consolation match; he lost that, too.
Throughout his youth Sparky was awkward socially. He was not actually disliked by the other students; no on cared that much. He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school hours. There’s no way to tell how he might have done at dating. Sparky never once asked a girl to go out in high school. He was too afraaid of being turned down.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates....everyone knew it. So he rolled with it. Sparky had made up his mind early in life that if things were meant to work out, they would. Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.
However, one thing was important to Sparky - drawing. He was pround of his artwork. Of course no one appreciated it. In his senior year of high school, he submitted some cartoons to the editors of the yearbook. The cartoons were turned down. Despite this particular rejection, Sparky was so convinced of his ability that he decided to become a professional artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a aletter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwoork, and the subject for a cartoon was suggested. Sparky drew the proposed cartoon. He spent a great deal of time on it and on all the other drawings he submitted. Finally, the replay came from Disney Sutdios. He had been rejected once again. Another loss for the loser....
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons. He described his childhood self - a little boy loser and chronic underachiever. The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide. For Sparky, the boy who had such lack of success in school and whose work was rejected again and again, was Charles Schultz. He created the “Peanuts” comic strip and the little cartoon character whose kite would never fly and who never succeeded in kicking a fooball, Charlie Brown.
Bits & Pieces...


Education Story Jack Canfield

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

Education Quote Carl Sagan

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At the end of the Second World War the average American needed only a fourth grade education to be in the 50th percentile in salary. In the 1990’s, a twelfth grade education is necessary to reach the same level. Today, a college graduate earns more than twice as much as someone iwth less that 12 years of education. We now suffer from the greatest gap between high and low income earners in the history of our nation.

Education Factoid Reed Hundt

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Is Technology Working?

Our children come into our schools today “Sesame Street” wise, Sea-circuited, and MTV-literate. They have watched thousands of hours of television and spent hundreds of hours playing electronic games even before they come to kindergarten. They receive 50-75 percent of their information from video and graphic sources. They are comfortable with technology. They grew up with it. It is the learning environment within which they have had the majority of their experiences. We adults, as parents, have provided them with that environment and, for the most part, left them on their own to explore and interpret it prior to entering the school system.

And then we send them into our schools, where 80-90% of the activities are still text-based. We take them out of the rich, multi-mediate enviroments of the home and neighborhood in which they have become interactively “literate” with their world and put them into the functionally mono-mediate environments of most classrooms and libraries where we attempt to dumb them down to what Symour Papert has called “letterate” learners.
“There are thousands of buildings in this country, will millions of people in them who have no telephones, no cable television, and no reasonable prospect of broadband services . They are called schools.”
Is Technology Working? (Technology & Learning - “Taking Stock: What’s the Research Saying?) by Judy Salpeter (May 1998) p24

Education Factoid Judy Salpeter

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Children are native to the digital age and adults are immigrants. Students grow up digitally and as a result they learn differently. The challenge to educators is in understanding what that means.

Education & Technology Judy Salpeter

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Technology is part of a child’s world - they have disregard for those who won’t or don’t use it.

Education & Technology Susan Cole

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Education Quote John Wooden

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A Special Teacher

Years ago a John Hopkin's professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment: Go to the slums. Take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then predict their chances for the future.

The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and compiling much data, concluded that 90 percent of the boys would spend some time in jail.

Twenty-five years later another group of graducate students was given the job of testing the prediction. They went back to the same area. Some of the boys - by then men - were still there, a few had died, some had moved away, but they got in touch with 180 of the original 200. They found that only four of the group had ever beensent to jail.

Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were continually told: "Well, there was a teacher..."

They pressed further, and found that in 75 percent of the cases it was the same woman. The researchers went to this teacher, now living in a home for retired teachers. How had she exerted this remarkable influence over that group of children? Could she give them any reason why these boys should have remembered her?

"No," she said, "no I really couldn't." And then, thinking back over the years, she said musingly, more to herself than to her questioners: "I loved those boys...."

Bits & Pieces - June 1995
Economics Press

Education Story

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Children grow up to what you believe in them.


Education Quote Mark Twain

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Education is not just the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire.




Education Quote B. Skinner

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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

Education Quote B. King

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Learning is not a spectator sport.

Education Quote D. Blocher

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For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivated. To be motivated, they must become interested. And they become interested when they are actively working on projects which they can relate to their values and goals in life.

Education Quote Gus Tuberville

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The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience.

Education Quote Carl Rogers

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I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.


Education Quote Albert Einstein

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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Education Quote William Ward

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Education Quote B. Skinner

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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Education Quote Edward Young

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Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Education Quote Arthur Clarke

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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Education Quote Fawn Brodie

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Education Quote Thomas Carruthers

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Education Quote John Dana

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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Education Quote William Durant

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Education Quote Ralph Emerson

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Education Quote Elbert Hubbard

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Education Quote Plato

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Education Quote

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education Quote George Shaw

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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Education Quote Dan Snow

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Education Quote Collee Wilcox

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Education Quote Albert Einstein

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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Education Quote Maria Montessori

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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education Quote Robert Hutchins

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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Education Quote Marva Collins

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Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education Quote Malcolm Forbes

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People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Education Quote Anne Sullivan

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Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Education Quote

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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Education Quote Mary Bethune

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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Education Quote George Carver

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education Quote Derek Bok

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I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Education Quote Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.

Education Quote Cardinal Wolsey

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education Quote G. Trevelyan

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Education Quote Socrates

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

Education Quote Abigail Adams

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Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Education Quote Bob Talbert

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Education Quote Eugene Wilson

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Education Quote Robert Stevenson

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We live and we learn. But, sadly, at different rates.

Education Quote Alan Magid

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education Quote George Santayana

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Education Quote John Keats

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Education Quote Harold Hulbert

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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Education Quote Malcolm X

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Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

Education Quote Sybil Marshall

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Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying.

Education Quote Merry Browne

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Education Quote Vernor Sanders

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Education Quote Winston Churchill

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Education Quote Rene Descartes

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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverb

Education Quote

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education Quote Joseph Stalin

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

Education Quote Aristotle

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Education Quote Thomas Huxley

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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Education Quote Sydney Harris

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Those who can, teach. Those who can't, do something far less important.

Education Quote Shirley Frye

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Education Quote Alvin Toffler

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Education Quote Pablo Picasso

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Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself.

Education Quote

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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Education Quote Naguib Mahfouz

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If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime ....

Education & Technology Anon.

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What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Education Quote Cicero

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Adults are obsolete children.

Education Quote Theodore Geisel

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Children have more need of models than of critics.

Education Quote Carolyn Coats

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You cannot control children by yelling any more than you can control a car with its horn.

Education Quote

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If you’re not having fun, you’re not being the best teacher you can be.

Education Quote Anon.

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Education Quote Gaiileo Galilei

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One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Education Quote Sophocles

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Education Quote John Lubbock

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Education Quote Robert Frost

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He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.

Education Quote

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Education Quote Sam Johnson

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education Quote Will Durant

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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering,
the fourth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.

Education Quote Ibn Gabirol

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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Education Quote Winston Churchill

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Education Quote James Thurber

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Education Quote Artistotle

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Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself.

Education Quote Floyd Maxwell

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The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Education Quote Euguene Wilson

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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

Education Quote William Bennett

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Education Quote Confucius

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The best teachers are those that show you where to look but don't tell you what to see.

Education Quote Alexandra Trenfor

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation or threats will bring it back.

Education Quote John Holt

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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world,
as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

Education Quote Bernard Bellk

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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

Education Quote John Mill

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A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.

Education Quote Henry Adams

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Anyone who cares to learn will always find a teacher.

Education Quote Proverb

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John Wooden, the great UCLA basketball coach, has a philosophy that every day he is supposed to help someone who can never reciprocate. That’s his obligation.
When in college working on his masters thesis on scouting and defensive football, George Allen wrote up a 30-page survey and sent it out to the great coaches in the country. Eighty-five percent answered it completely.

Great people will share, which is what made George Allen one of the greatest football coaches in the world. Great people will tell you their secrets. Look for them, call them on the phone or buy their books. Go where they are, get around them, talk to them. It is easy to be great when you get around great people.

By Bob Richards
Olympic Athlete

Education Story Robert Richards

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The values learned on the playing field - how to set goals, endure,take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress - prepare us for life.

Education Quote Donna de Varona

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The I Can't Funeral
by Author Unknown
Donna's fourth grade classroom looked like many others I had seen in the past. The teacher's desk was in front and faced the students. The bulletin board featured student work. In most respects it appeared to be a typically traditional elementary classroom. Yet something seemed different that day I entered it for the first time.

My job was to make classroom visitations and encourage implementation of a training program that focused on language arts ideas that would empower students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this project.

I took an empty seat in the back of the room and watched. All the students were working on a task, filling a sheet of notebook paper with thoughts and ideas. The ten-year-old student next to me was filling her page with "I Can'ts". "I can't kick the soccer ball past second base." "I can't do long division with more than three numerals." "I can't get Debbie to like me." Her page was half full and she showed no signs of letting up. She worked on with determination and persistence. I walked down the row glancing at student's papers. Everyone was writing sentences, describing things they couldn't do.

By this time the activity engaged my curiosity, so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on but I noticed she too was busy writing. I felt it best not to interrupt. "I can't get John's mother to come for a teacher conference." "I can't get my daughter to put gas in the car." "I can't get Alan to use words instead of fists."

Thwarted in my efforts to determine why students and teacher were dwelling on the negative instead of writing the more positive "I Can" statements, I returned to my seat and continued my observations.

Students wrote for another ten minutes. They were then instructed to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their "I Can't" statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna added hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door and down the hall.

Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna entered the custodian's room, rummaged around and came out with a shovel. Shovel in one hand, shoe box in the other, Donna marched the students out to the school to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to dig. They were going to bury their "I Can'ts"!

The digging took over ten minutes because most of the fourth graders wanted a turn. The box of "I Can'ts" was placed in a position at the bottom of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. Thirty-one 10 and 11 year-olds stood around the freshly dug grave site. At this point Donna announced, "Boys and girls, please join hands and bow your heads." They quickly formed a circle around the grave, creating a bond with their hands.

They lowered their heads and waited. Donna delivered the eulogy.
"Friends, we gathered here today to honor the memory of 'I Can't.' While he was with us here on earth, he touched the lives of everyone, some more than others. We have provided 'I Can't' with a final resting place and a headstone that contains his epitaph. He is is survived by his brothers and sisters,'I Can','I Will', and 'I'm Going to Right Away'. They are not as well known as their famous relative and are certainly not as strong and powerful yet. Perhaps some day, with your help, they will make an even bigger mark on the world. May 'I Can't' rest in peace and may everyone present pick up their lives and move forward in his absence. Amen."
As I listened I realized that these students would never forget this day. Writing "I Can'ts", burying them and hearing the eulogy. That was a major effort on this part of the teacher. And she wasn't done yet.

She turned the students around, marched them back into the classroom and held a wake. They celebrated the passing of "I Can't" with cookies, popcorn and fruit juices. As part of the celebration, Donna cut a large tombstone from butcher paper. She wrote the words "I Can't" at the top and put RIP in the middle. The date was added at the bottom. The paper tombstone hung in Donna's classroom for the remainder of the year.

On those rare occasions when a student forgot and said, "I Can't", Donna simply pointed to the RIP sign. The student then remembered that "I Can't" was dead and chose to rephrase the statement. I wasn't one of Donna's students. She was one of mine. Yet that day I learned an enduring lesson from her as years later, I still envision that fourth grade class laying to rest, "I Can't".

Education Story

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Once there was a man walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he got closer, he noticed the man was picking up starfish that had been washed ashore and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. When the man asked what he was doing, he said, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the beach. If I don't throw them back, they'll die from lack of oxygen." "I understand," replied the visitor, "but there must be hundreds of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. And this is happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down the coast. Can't you see that you really cannot make a difference?" The man smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one." Our lives do influence others...for good or bad. Even small insignificant acts set in motion great things. An encouraging word. A cold soda. The first, "Good Morning!" A strong handshake. Your every act or attitude will make a difference to just one! ...In everything set them an example by doing what is good ...show integrity."

Education Story Tom Cook

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Minds are like parachutes. The more open they are the better they work.

Education Quote

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CARPE DIEM" (Seize the Day)

Education Quote

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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Education Quote Booker Washington

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Practice is the best of all instructors.

Education Quote Publilus Syrus

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In Japan - great Artists are judged and recognized as national treasures...

Education Story

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Education Quote Confucius

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Education Quote

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Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill

Education Quote Tony Buzan

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving . . . and that's your own self.

Education Quote Aldous Huxley

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Education Quote Charles Kingsley

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Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Education Quote Anon.

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Gold has a price, but learning is priceless.

Education Quote

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When one teaches, two learn.

Education Quote Robert Half

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Education Quote Goethe

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One must be a student before one can be a teacher.

Education Quote

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Education Quote Frederick Douglas

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Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.

Education Quote

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Education Quote Albert Schweitzer

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Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous.

Education Quote

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Education Quote Jacques Barzun

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education Quote H. Wells

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Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you.

Education Quote Richard Bach

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Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

Education Quote

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You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.

Education Quote

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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music,
for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.

Education Quote Plato

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Education Quote Thomas Huxley

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Education Quote Aristotle

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The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

Education Quote Patricia Clafford

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.

Education Quote Marcus Cicero

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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Education Quote Warren Bennis

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Education Quote Jean Piaget

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Education Quote Cicero

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Education Quote Charles Colton

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The invention of I.Q. has done a great disservice to creativity in education.

Education Quote Joel Hildebrand

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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.

Education Quote Samuel Butler

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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Education Quote William Ward

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education Quote Edward Everett

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The only reason I try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me
to forgive their children.

Education Quote

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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learningand a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Education Quote Leo Buscaglia

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When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light
--you will never forget it.

Education Quote Carl Sagan

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Education Quote Mohammed

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Education Quote George Palmer

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Education Quote Henry Ford

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The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.

Education Quote Lesley Conger

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Education Quote Marvin Minsky

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Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before the lesson.

Education Quote

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, But to irrigate ditches.

Education Quote C. Lewis

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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Education Quote Whitney Houston

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All I Ever Really
Needed to Know I Learned
in Kindergarten.
By: Robert Fulghum
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Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup. . . they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation; Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.


Education Story Robert Fulghum

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You can't learn much by listening to yourself all the time.

Education Quote

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One example is worth a thousand precepts.

Education Quote Anon.

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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Education Quote Leonardo da Vinci

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Education Quote Bob Perelman

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It is only the ignorant that despise education.

Education Quote Publillus Syrus

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.

Education Quote Hodding Carter

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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Education Quote C. Ceram

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book.

Education Quote D. Eisenhower

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Try not to have a good time...This is supposed to be educational.

Education Quote Charles Schulz

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Education Quote Alex Bourne

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Millions saw the apple fall, but only Newton asked why.

Education Quote Bernard Baruch

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Education Quote Franklin Adams

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On average, Clergymen, Lawyers, and Doctors have 15,000 words in their vocabulary. Skilled workers who haven’t had a college education know between 5,000 and 7,000 words. Farm laborers about 1,600.

Education Quote History Channel

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.


Education Quote Leonardo da Vinci

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School administrators intone that "in order for learning to take place, there must be order in the classroom."

That may be true, but I feel theemphasis is in the wrong place. In order for learning to take place, there should be something worth learning.


Education Quote Susan Ohanian

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You should be carefule around those younger than you. It is surprising how much of an impact a word or action can make on them.

Education Quote Sarah, age 12

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One of the best ways to find out about a person’s character is to play Monopoly with them.

Education Quote Ellana, age 15

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Education Quote Sir Richard Steele

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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Education Quote Gilbert Chesterton

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Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Education Quote Sir Richard Livingstone

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I never got a passing mark in math. Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Funny me consorting with all these learned folds, as though I were their long lost brother.

I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

Education Story M. Escher

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What the pupils want to learn is as important as what the teachers want to teach.

Education Quote Lois LeBar

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As a 5 year old said after her first day of school. “I am only going to school until it fits on a CD-ROM.”

Education Quote Anon.

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.


Education Quote Jacques Barzun

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Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.


Education Quote Unknown

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.

Education Quote Pete Seeger

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There are two types of education...One will teach you how to make a living the other how to live.

Education Quote John Adams

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.


Education Quote Plato

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Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Education Quote

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The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Education Quote O. Battista

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Education Quote Franklin Adams

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It takes a village to raise a child.

Education Quote African Proverb

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For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn-much

Education Quote W. Sellar

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Education Quote Wilson Mizner

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Education Quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” (I found it!) but “That’s funny...

Education Quote Isaac Asimov

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Education Quote Desiderius Erasmus

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Education Quote James Baldwin

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Education Quote Ralph Emerson

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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself is the description of a nation bent on sucide.

Education Quote Jonathan Kozol

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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.

Education Quote Aristotle

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Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.

Education Quote Immanuel Kant

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Education Quote Anatole France

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Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.

Education Quote Malcolm X

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Socrates Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

Education Quote Socrates

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Education Quote Norman Douglar

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Education Quote Aristotle

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We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.

Education Quote Phyllis Diller

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name it means trouble.

Education Quote Mark Twain

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I know you believe you understand what you think I said. But I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.

Education Quote Patrick Murray

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My problems all started with my early education. I went to a school for mentally disturbed teachers.

Education Quote Woody Allen

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I took the speed reading course and read “War and Peace” in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia.

Education Quote Woody Allen

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Those who can do.
Those who can't teach.
Those who can't teach train teachers.
Those who can't train teachers write teacher training textbooks.
Those who can't write teacher training textbooks write state assessment tests.

Education Quote Steve Nordby

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Education Quote John Powell

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education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but imporssible to enslave.

Education Quote Lord Brougham

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Too often we give our children answers to remember than problems to solve.

Education Quote Roger Lewin

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Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

Education Quote St. Francis Xavier

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If all the rich and all the church people should send children to the public schools they would concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Education Quote Susan Anthony

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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Education Quote Virgil

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When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Education Quote Albert Einstein

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When children know that uniqueness is respected, they are more likely to put their to use.

Education Quote Dorothy Briggs

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And will you succeed?
You will indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

Education Quote Theodore Geizel

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A little learning is a dangeous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Education Quote Alexander Pope

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Knowledge is power.

Education Quote Francis Bacon

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Education is the best provison for old age.

Education Quote Aristotle

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Education Quote Evan Esar

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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Education Quote Robert Savage

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A good education is the next best thing to a push mother.

Education Quote Charles Schulz

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village - so beautiful that the punishement for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Education Quote Oscar Wilde

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I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had know they were slaves.

Education Quote Harriet Tubman

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Education Quote George Shaw

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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Education Quote Heinrich Heine

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We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Education Quote Bill Vaughn

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All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Education Quote Plato

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The obvious is always least understood.

Education Quote Prince Metternich

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Calvin: Let’s try this path over here.
Hobbes: I don’t see a path.
Calvin: We’ll make a path!

Education Quote

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Calvin: I think we have got enough information now, don't you?
Hobbes: All we have is one "fact" that you made up.
Calvin: That's plenty. By the time we add an introduction, a few illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate thesis.
Calvin: Besides, I've got a secret weapon that will guarantee me a good grade. No teacher can resist this.
Hobbes: What is it?
Calvin: A clear plastic binder! Pretty professional looking, eh?
Hobbes: I don't want co-author credit on this, ok?

Education Quote

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"The really bright student, the eager questioner, the probing searcher, especially if he is brighter than his teacher, is too often seen as a 'wise guy,' a threat to discipline, a challenger of his teacher's authority."

Education Quote Abraham Maslow

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Calvin: Boy, did I get in trouble at school today. Wow.
Hobbes: What happened?
Calvin: I don't even want to talk about it.
Hobbes: Did it have anything to do with all those sirens about noon?
Calvin: I SAID I don't want to talk about it.

Education Quote

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"Being clear about what teaching is matters vitally because how teachers understand teaching very much affects what they actually do in the classroom."

Education Quote Paul Hirst

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Miss Wormwood: Calvin where was the Byzantine empire:
Calvin: I’ll take “outer planets” for $100.

Education Quote

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Everything we do as teachers has moral overtones.

Education Quote Nel Noddings

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If you want to know what you are thinking, put your thoughts into words.

Education Quote John Mills

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"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog.

Education Quote

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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Education Quote Calvin

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You can present the material, but you can’t make me care!

Education Quote

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Of the thousands of pieces of advice, inspiration and encouragment I've received over the years, the most powerful one—the one that has played a central role in my life, both as a child and as an adult—boils down to a single word: practice."

Education Quote Itzhak Perlman

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The child will always attend more to what a teacher does than to what the same teacher says.

Education Quote William James

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If you are a wise man you will observe your pupil carefully before saying a word to him.

Education Quote Jean Rousseau

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Most university students have never been formally taught to learn how to study, either in high school or college.

Education Quote L. Gardner

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"If you are not being educated in your job today, you may be out of a job tomorrow... Employee education is not growing 100 percent faster than academia, but 100 times - or 10,000 percent - faster... Over the next few decades the private sector will eclipse the public sector and become the major institution responsible for learning."


Education Quote Jim Botkin

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In your career, knowledge is like milk. It has a shelf life stamped right on the carton. The shelf life of a degree in engineering is about 3 years. If you're not replacing everything you know by then, your career is going to turn sour fast."


Education Quote Louis Ross

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We need to bring learning to people, and not just people to learning.

Education Quote Elliott Maise

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Everyone and everthing around you is your teacher.

Education Quote Ken Keyes

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Education Quote Arthur Schopenhauer

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Education Quote Collen Wilcox

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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Education Quote Confucius

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Education Quote Frank Clark

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To teach is to learn twice.

Education Quote Joseph Joubert

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When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

Education Quote

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The great thing about teamwork is you always have others on your side.

Education Quote Earl Nightingale

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Learning is a treasure that follows it owner everywhere.

Education Quote

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I have one rule --- Attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine.

Education Quote Sister Evangelist RSM

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A basic truth in education is that a child must be literate before he or she can be computer literate. And the best teacher has always been a person, not a machine.

Education Quote William Rukeyser

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

Education Quote Thomas Fuller

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If women are to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Education Quote Plato

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A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.

Education Quote

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, new questions, then it is time to die.

Education Quote Lillian Smith

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Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Education Quote Marshal McLuhn

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Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wise them to have when they are grown up?

Education Quote Plato

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If you came and you found a strange man...teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are, you come in and the TVis on, and you don’t think twice about it.

Education Quote Jerome Singer

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We’re strip-mining our children’s minds and we’re doing it for commercial profit without any concern for the longer-term consequences for them and for out society.

Education Quote Albert Gore

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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilige.

Education Quote Stalin

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Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Education Quote David Gardner

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We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Education Quote Rutherford Rogers

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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)


Education Quote George Will

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We barbers are not gods, you know. Medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why just fifty years ago we would have thought your daughter's illness was brought on by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors perhaps caused by a toad or small dwarf living in her stomach.

Education Quote Theodoric of York

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All students can learn and succeed, but not in the same day, in the same way.

Education Quote William Spady

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When you don’t understand - it must be magic!

Education Quote Sir David Wilson

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Knowledge needs to be a verb.

Education Quote W. Denning

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Education Quote Ralph Emerson

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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

Education Quote Grace Hopper

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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Education Quote Steve Jobs

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When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Education Quote John Kennedy

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I do not seek. I find.

Education Quote Pablo Picasso

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There are no secrets to success; don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

Education Quote General Colin Powell

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Necessity is the mother of invention,it is true -- but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Education Quote Jonathan Schattke

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You can get help from teachers, but are going to have to learn alot by yourself sitting alone in a room.

Education Quote Theodore Geisel

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Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure...it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.

Education Quote Robert Schuller

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Education Quote Confucius

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Education Quote Lily Tomlin

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If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 30 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.

Education Quote Donald Quinn

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If you promise not to believe everthing your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everythink he says happens at home.

Education Quote Anonymous Teacher

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Real excuse notes from parents (with their original spelling) collected by schools from all over the country:
1. My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.
2. Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
3. Dear School: Please excuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29,30, 31, 32, and also 33.
4.Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.
5. Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.
9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
10. Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
11. Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had (diahre) (dyrea) (direathe) the runs. [words in ()'s were crossed out.]
12. Please excuse Burma, she has been sick and under the doctor.
13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
14. Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.
15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because I don't know what size she wears.
16. Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.
17. Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.
18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the Marines.
19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well.
20. Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.
21. Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever and sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.
22. Please excuse little Jimmy for not being in school yesterday. His father is gone and I could not get him ready because I was in bed with the doctor.



Education Story

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Teachers with 32 hours of training in using technology in the classroom are more likely to assign problem-solving tasks using those tooks than their colleagues with less or no training.

Education & Technology

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Education Quote Anatole France

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Since graduating from high school and receiving two university degrees, I've never had to diagram a sentence or solve for X in any quadratic equation.

Education Quote Eric Mayer

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When I was a young lad in school,
my teacher said, “Sit on that stool.”
and so I sat, with a paper hat,
that was worn by a dunce or a fool.

Education Quote Albert Einstein

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Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.

Education Quote Danial Boorstein

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When we have to learn to do, we learn by doing

Education Quote Aristotle

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You can tell a freshman,
by the way they look.
You can tell a Sophmore,
by the kind of book.
You can tell a Junior,
by their clothes and such.
You can tell a Senior
...but you can’t tell them much!

Education Quote Anon.

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Although there are countless alumni of the school of hard knocks, there has not yet been a move to accredit that institution.

Education Quote Sonya Rudkoff

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It is easier to move a cemetary
than change a school’s curriculum.

Education Quote Anon.

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The main value of homework lies in the experience it gives a child to work on his own.

Education Quote Haim Ginott

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The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.

Education Quote Robert Kibee

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Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Education Quote Thomas Bailey

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If we think about our own lives, we’ll remember how much more we’ve learned from those who encouraged us.

Education Quote Joe Nameth

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Education Quote Marcel Proust

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The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Education Quote Louis Johannot

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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

Education Quote Japanese Proverb

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No one ever became wise by chance.

Education Quote Seneca

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Education Quote Douglas Everett

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Talent is what you possess.
Genius is what possesses you.

Education Quote M. Cowley

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Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remember teachers, not methods and techniques.

Education Quote Sidney Hook

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