The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) { priest of the Church of England; more Burton quotes }The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
-- Paul E. Gray { leader in education who was chancellor of MIT for 26 years } [education]It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) { QuotationsPage.com:: more quotes by Holmes }The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
-- Carl Rogers (1902 - 1987) { psychologist responsible for 'Person centered psychotherapy'; Wikipedia.org }Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-- Chinese Proverb { obtained from a Weekly Teacher Tip email message }Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
-- unknown source { quote contained in a spam email message } [conversation]I made a decision with college presidents that if a student is denied access because of this tuition increase, the college president and I will sit down and personally figure out how the student can attend.
-- Rufus Glasper { MCCCD chancellor on 2005's 9.1% tuition increase; TuitionGouging.US } [education]Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) { lawyer/statesman/essayist/historian/ philosopher/champion of modern science; more... } [travel]On the road again... goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again,
And I can't wait to get on the road again.
-- Willie Nelson { WillieNelson.com } [fun]The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
-- Richard Leider { career development counselor; quote found in Ed The Hotdogger's holiday calendar } [life]In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."
-- Grace Hopper (01906-01992) { U.S. Naval Officer; mathematician; computer programmer; more... } [nano]How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
-- Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) { American aviator; nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927; homepage } [sustainability]Here, failure is often seen as an education, provided one fails the right way, which is to say not stupidly or sleazily.
-- Dan Gillmor { speaking about Silicon Valley; Gillmor on " Grassroots Journalism" } [failure]I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
-- Wilma Mankiller { former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; more... } [education]It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow.
-- Robert Goddard (1882-1945) { scientist and pioneer of modern rocketry; more... } [future]How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-- Satchel Paige (01906-01982) {Hall of Fame baseball player; more more...} [imagination]QOTW::Recently Collected Quotes:: Winter Break 2004-2005 | Spring 2005
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