Thursday, March 27, 2008

Teaching and Learning Quotes

Adults are obsolete children. - Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss

Ashes to ashes / Dust to dust / Oil those brains / Before they rust. - Jack Prelutsky (A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, 1993)

Behold the superfluous! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves; "education" they call their theft - and everything turns to sickness and misfortune for them. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1891)

By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes (4th C. BC)

Chance favors the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1759)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams

to be continued

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