Quote for the day 26-12-2014
Friday, December 26th, 2014“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity.” – Samuel Johnson
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity.” – Samuel Johnson
“People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.” – Thomas Mann
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers” – Richard Bach
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” – J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
“I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son.” – Thomas Wolfe
“If what you’re doing isn’t working, try something else!” – NLP adage
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers
“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb
“Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.” – Alfred North Whitehead
“Education…is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,… by praise, but above all — by example.” – John Ruskin