| One way the civilized world destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts. |
A.W. Tozer |
| We learn with difficulty, forget easily and suffer many distractions. |
A.W. Tozer |
| Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. |
Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. |
Albert Einstein |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. |
Albert Einstein |
| The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. |
Albert Einstein |
| Things seen are mightier than things heard. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Both he who expects great things of others and he who expects little, will receive that he expects. |
Anonymous |
| If your teaching has fewer movements than a symphony of the same length, you're in trouble. |
Anonymous |
| Motivation in life has much to do with motives in life. It's the same in teaching. |
Anonymous |
| Nothing is more rewarding than to watch someone who says it can't be done get interrupted by someone actually doing it. |
Anonymous |
| There is no growth without challenge, and there is no challenge without change. |
Anonymous |
| We do not teach math, history, science, or grammar - we teach students. |
Anonymous |
| People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. |
Blaise Pascal |
| When you hear information, you retain 20%. When you hear it and see it, you retain 50%. If you hear it, see it, and do it, retention goes to 90%. |
Bob Boylan |
| Any time truths become the end of our teaching, rather than the means to an end, we have short-circuited the God-ordained purpose of those truths. |
Bruce Wilkinson |
| How bankrupt it is to define learning as 'the ability to reproduce a given set of pre-digested facts by means of threat of failure.' |
Bruce Wilkinson |
| How utterly revolutionary for the teacher to realise that his purpose centres not around what he does, but upon what his class members do. |
Bruce Wilkinson |
| If silent expectations have a direct impact on others - and they do - just consider how multiplied an impact a positive expectation that one vocalises can have. |
Bruce Wilkinson |
| We teachers must present the whole before its parts and help our students master the irreducible minimum. |
Bruce Wilkinson |
| We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
Carl Gustav Jung |
| The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
Carlyle |
| Don't just throw the seed - grind it, bake it, slice it, and put a little honey on it. |
Charles H. Spurgeon |
| Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. |
Clarence Day |
| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
Confucius |
Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move contains within itself all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. From the consequences of one's action there is never any escape.