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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.E M Forster
You can't teach a man anything; you can only let him find it for himself.Galileo (1564-1642)
I'm not a teacher; only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more; or do any more or be any more; he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy. Henry Ward Beecher (1783-1860)
Focus on remedies, not faults.Jack Nicklaus
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana (1856 - 1929)
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. Jules Renard (1864-1910)
There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward. Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
It isn't what you know, it's what you do that counts. Peter Honey
The great end of learning is not knowledge but action.Peter Honey
Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus
Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus
The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Whether you think others can or that they can't you are usually right. (With apologies to Henry Ford.) Rod Webb
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
We thought; because we had power; we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)
Learning without action is like teaching a child to walk and watching them crawl everywhere.Steve Rush
Training that brings about no change is as effective as a parachute that opens on the first bounce.Unknown
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never; ever the same. Unknown
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward (1916-1977)