favourite quotations…

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Albert Einstein

 

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

- James Bennis

 

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

- Oscar Wilde

 

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

- Patrick White

 

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

- Thomas H. Huxley

 

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

- W. Edwards Deming

 

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- Dale Carnegie

 

Training adults is like driving a bus... if you do not take people to where they want to go, they get off.

- anon

 

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

- Charles Brower

 

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- Canfield & Hansen

 

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

- Mark Twain

 

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

- Vernon Law

 

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B F Skinner

 

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

- Thomas Szasz

 

A wise person learns when he can. A fool learns when he must.

- Duke of Wellington

 

The difficulty lies not in new ideas but in escaping from the old ones which ramify into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

 

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Chinese proverb

 

I do not teach my pupils. I provide conditions in which they can learn.

- Albert Einstein

 

That which can be taught directly to another is relatively trivial, whereas things of significance can only be learnt.

- Carl Rogers

 

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

 - The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Pierce

 

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

 - Winston Churchill

 

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.

- Benjamin Franklin