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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” – Confucius

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater” – Gail Godwin

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated” – Alec Bourne

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

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view” – Robert Hutchins

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten” – B. F. Skinner

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence” – Abigail Adams

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous” – Confucius

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards” Anatole France

“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb

“There is more to life than increasing its speed” - Mahatma Gandhi

“The problems that exit in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them” – Albert Einstein

“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks” – Albert Einstein

“The heights which great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, whilst their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position” Bertrand Russell

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