Collection of Wisdoms

Quotations

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”


Herbert Spencer

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."


Benjamin Franklin

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."


John Dewey

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."


Sydney J. Harris

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


Mahatma Gandhi

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."


Kofi Annan

"Imagination is more important than knowledge: To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."


Albert Einstein

"Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."


Sophocles, Trachiniae

", One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it you have no certainty, until you try."


Sophocles 445 B.C.

"Zum Sehen geboren; zum Schauen bestellt." {Born to look; Meant to see}


Faust, Goethe

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."


Confucius

“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”


Henry Ford

“We complain that learners want to be spoon-fed, but then we won’t let them hold the spoon.”


Jane Bozarth

    “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

    Herbert Spencer

    "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

    Benjamin Franklin

    "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

    Sydney J. Harris

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

    Mahatma Gandhi

    Mahatma Gandhi "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

    Kofi Annan

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge: To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

    Albert Einstein

    "Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."

    Sophocles, Trachiniae

    One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it you have no certainty, until you try."

    Sophocles 445 B.C.

    "Zum Sehen geboren; zum Schauen bestellt." {Born to look; Meant to see}

    Faust, Goethe

    "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

    Confucius

    “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”

    Henry Ford

    We complain that learners want to be spoon-fed, but then we won’t let them hold the spoon

    Jane Bozarth

    We need to bring learning to people, instead of people to learning.

    Elliott Masie

    Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.

    Richard Branson

    When it comes to the design of effective learning experiences, one provocative question is worth a hundred proclamations.

    Bernard Bull

    You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

    Seymour Papert

    The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged.

    James Bates

    Learning experiences are like journeys. The journey starts where the learning is now, and ends where the learner is successful.

    Julie Dirksen