Learning Quotes - Page 35

• As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “Developing the Leader Within You Workbook”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Pride, Thinking

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Children, Good Life

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teacher, Teaching, Natural Gifts

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• Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Calling, Dignity

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

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• A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Clever

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teaching, Degrees, Kind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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• We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Beauty, Nature, Health

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

  Joseph Needham

  Science, Civilization, Inspire

  Joseph Needham (2013). “The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West”, p.176, Routledge

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Change, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

  Henry Fielding

  Education, School, Vices

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 5

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Education, Men, Thinking

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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

  John Ray

  Education, Wise, Intellectual

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• Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Education, Teaching, People

  I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional introduction (1992).

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• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

  Casey Kasem

  Education, Stars, Feet

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• The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

  T. D. Jakes

  Education, Teacher, Morning

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• You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Reading, Ideas

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  Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Motivational, Education, Exercise

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.180

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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