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Favorite Quotations
The surest way to make it hard for children is to make it easy for them.
Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
What children need perhaps more than anything is discipline, and a sense of commitment to something larger than themselves.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The important thing is to use it well.
Most men are unwilling to be taught.
Personally, I am always willing to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe.
The teacher who attempts to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I'm not young enough to know everything.
The curriculum should not clutter the air. It should clear it for creativity.
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
He is educated who knows where to find out what he doesn't know.
Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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