open house quotes 2004
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity,
he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
~Clay P. Bedford
When the student is ready, the master appears.
~Buddhist Proverb
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."
~Phyllis Diller
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
~Ray LeBlond
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to
educate themselves.
~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
~Dudley Field Malone
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question
and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
~Lloyd Alexander
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
~Marvin Minsky
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think,
than what to think - rather to improve our minds,
so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory
with thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing
to economize.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey
Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~Pete Seeger
Life is not fair~Get used to it!
~ Bill Gates
Too often we give children answers to remember
rather than problems to solve.
~Roger Lewin