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Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:42 pm
by MLee
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
-- Smiley Blanton
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Knowledge is power, but it is enthusiasm which pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:43 pm
by MLee
"A teacher affects eternity; they can never tell where their influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates
"I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son." - ~~Thomas Wolfe
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:44 pm
by MLee
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited." - Plutarch
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superiorteacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:45 pm
by MLee
The reading of all good books
is like a conversation with the
finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:47 pm
by MLee
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J Boostin
Imagination will often carry us
to worlds that never were
Carl Sagan
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:50 pm
by MLee
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
There is more treasure in books
than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:52 pm
by MLee
Imagination rules the world.
~Napoleon Bonaparte~
The truly educated never graduate
~~Unknown
Knowledge speaks,
but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:50 am
by Nanna-Star
I am bookmarking these!
Re: Wisdom, Teachers, Books
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:54 pm
by limbopip
"I don't let my schooling get in the way of my education"- Mark Twain
I just asked my boss, who has the same exact degree as me from the same exact school, what he has used on the job he learned from school. His reply, "Nothing...and I don't remember anything I learned as is now." He graduated 10 years ago.