-----Original Message-----
From: Frances Bell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 August 2006 17:41
To: John Hilsdon
Subject: RE: Pithy quotes?

 

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            A little learning

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:54 PM      

           

 

A little learning is a dangerous thing

 

People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error. First said by Alexander Pope.

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            Curriculum

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:54 PM      

           

 

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president.

 

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            Education

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 12 March 2006, 09:01 AM       

            Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

            Education and schooling

by Alan Salmoni - Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 04:22 PM  

            "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education": Mark Twain

            Encouragement

by Frances Bell - Thursday, 22 December 2005, 01:55 PM           

           

 

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

 

 

- Anonymous

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            feral learning

by Mary Hall - Monday, 13 February 2006, 01:27 AM       

           

 

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

- Mark Twain

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            Ignorance

by Alan Salmoni - Monday, 6 February 2006, 12:29 PM   

            I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

 

Richard Feynman

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            Knowledge about yourself

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:54 PM      

           

 

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of that knowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti (b. 1895), Indian mystic. Krishnamurti’s Notebook, entry for Sept. 21, 1961, Harper & Row (1976)

 

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            Learning and teaching

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:55 PM      

           

 

Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn.

 

Loris Malaguzzi (1920–1994), Italian early childhood education specialist. Quoted in The Hundred Languages of Children, ch. 3, by Carolyn Edwards (1993).

            Learning forever

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:55 PM      

            Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

            Learning from cats

by Frances Bell - Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 12:50 AM   

            If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

 

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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            Learning is like rowing upstream

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:56 PM      

           

 

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

 

Chinese Proverb

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            Learning which does not advance

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:56 PM      

           

 

Learning which does not advance each day will daily decrease

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            Learning without thinking

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:57 PM      

           

 

Learning without thinking is labour lost; thinking without learning is dangerous.

 

Chinese proverb.

 

 

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            Royal Road to Learning

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:58 PM      

           

 

Euclid, having opened a school of mathematics at Alexandria, was asked by King Ptolemy whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner. “Sire,” said the geometrician, “there is no royal road to learning.

 

E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

 

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            Sleep-learning

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 03:59 PM      

           

 

Attempted instruction in a subject, such as a foreign language, during sleep, usually by means of recordings. Also called hypnopedia.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

            socialization

by Frances Bell - Friday, 7 October 2005, 08:33 PM        

           

 

Learning the customs, attitudes, and values of a social group, community, or culture. Socialization is essential for the development of individuals who can participate and function within their societies, as well as for ensuring that a society’s cultural features will be carried on through new generations. Socialization is most strongly enforced by family, school, and peer groups and continues throughout an individual’s lifetime.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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            tell, show, involve

by Frances Bell - Sunday, 9 October 2005, 04:00 PM      

            Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

Chinese proverb.

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            Women and Science

by Frances Bell - Thursday, 22 December 2005, 02:31 PM           

            Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad.

Johnny Ball

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hilsdon
Sent: 24 August 2006 13:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pithy quotes?

 

Dear All

 

I hope you had a summer break (or are having one).

 

I had a great holiday but, inevitably, thoughts are now turning to teaching again … I am revising some of my induction/ice-breaking type activities and materials.

 

In the past I have used a collection of quotations (culled from an American internet site, if I remember rightly, one rainy day about five years ago) to stimulate thinking about teaching and learning for sessions with staff and students.

 

My approach is to print various of these (see below) in very large font, one each onto sheets of A4 paper, and post them around the room for folks to see and ponder – and later to respond to with their own thoughts, on post-its, or by adding graffiti.

 

Here is my current collection – I am happy to share them but, as you can see, there are not many very up-to-the-minute ones, or many quotes from women, or from non-western educationalists … hence my request to you: do you have any suggestions I can add to my list? I would prefer them to be as brief as the ones below. It would be great to have some from our contemporaries, or from other, diverse sources … or from you!

 

All the best

 

John

 

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."

- Socrates

 

"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

 

"The only kind of learning which significantly influences behaviour is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience."

- Carl Rogers

 

"The teacher if s/he is indeed wise, does not teach you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

- Kahlil Gilbran

 

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William Arthur Ward.

 

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."

- Oscar Wilde

 

"What I hear, I forget.

What I see, I remember.

What I do, I understand."

- Confucius

 

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

 

"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

"Cogito, ergo sum." (I think, therefore I am.)

- Rene Descartes

 

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

- Gail Godwin

 

"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."

-          John Adams

 

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

- Joseph Addison

 

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

- James Baldwin

 

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

- Lee lacocca

 

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

 

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

English biologist (1825 - 1895)

 

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James

 

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

 

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

 

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894) 

 

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn - much.

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, (authors of ‘1066 And All That’) from And Now All This (1932)

 

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

 

 

 

John Hilsdon

Co-ordinator, Learning Development

University of Plymouth

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