Cooperative Learning Quotes

• Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration

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• When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

  Confucius

  Teacher, Working Together, Three

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• The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Teacher, Teaching, Goal

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• In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

  Lilian Katz

  Meaningful, Children, Skills

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

  Ralph Charell

  Success, Teamwork, Competition

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• Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

  James D. Watson

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

  Noam Chomsky

  Education, Teaching, Reading

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• Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Passion, Successful, Achievement

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• The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Mind, Return

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• Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Weakness, Able, Individual

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• In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.

  Lilian Katz

  Teacher, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Teaching, Ideas, Want

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• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  M. Scott Peck

  Soulmate, Acceptance, Differences

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• We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

  Melody Beattie

  World, May, Ends

  Melody Beattie (1992). “Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps: New Stories”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

  George Lucas

  Team, Skills, People

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• If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.

  Stephen Covey

  Two, Differences, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Commitment, Community, Promise

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• Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Reality, Civilization

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA

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• The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

  John Dewey

  Skills, Acquisition, Use

  "The Later Works, 1925-1953".

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Joy, Cooperation, Pleasure

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• The more he cast away, the more he had.

  John Bunyan

  Educational, Giving, Generosity

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• ... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Race, Differences, Personality

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.712, Sahitya Akademi

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• Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Teacher, Teaching, Evil

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