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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants...John W. Gardner

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A professor is someone who talks

in someone else's sleep.

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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right...Oprah Winfrey

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer...Albert Einstein

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It's not about controlling your time, it's about controlling your attention…Professor Dara Quackenbush, Texas State University

 

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No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.  Charles Francis Adams

A Little Teaching Humor...

Best reason for students to acquire a rich vocabulary: to have multiple synonyms ready when they start to forget words in middle age…Alfie Kohn

 

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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. (Author unknown)

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it…Aristotle

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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others...Tryon Edwards

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If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for 9 months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.    D. Quinn

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way...Doris Lessing

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance... Thomas Sowell

Yes, I'm Writing A Novel.

I've been saying for several years that I'm going to write a novel. I've written/published over 50 articles in academic journals as well as a book on teaching but for some reason the idea of writing the novel is overwhelming. Thus, I found the following quote inspirational.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one...Mark Twain

Today I'm taking a five hour workshop on writing a novel! What have you been putting off?

 

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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know…Daniel J. Boorstin

 

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.   Pat Riley

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Formal education will make you a living;

Self-education will make you a fortune.  Jim Rohn    

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The purpose of education is to help students develop a lifelong love of learning…Lisa Thumann

 

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something...Thomas Hardy

 

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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."    Sir Barnett Cocks, British politician

 

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing either your temper or self-confidence...Robert Frost

 

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Got this from Mike Johansson on Twitter. 

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

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Today’s students are not the students we were trained to teach. Ian Jukes

Here's an article that tries to explain why.

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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'   ...Dan Rather

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Found this as the tag line at blog, Teach Online.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

So true!

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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.  Charles W. Eliot, educator and former president of Harvard University.