Monday, November 1, 2010

Ten Education Quotes for Today

"I failed my way to success" 
-- Thomas Edison


"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge
in pursuit of the child."
--George Bernard Shaw


"Technology: Opening Minds with a New Set of Keys"
-- Anon
"Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever."
-- John Mason Brown
"Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm."
--' Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
 --John Naisbitt



"The illiterate of the 21st century won't be those who can't read and write but those who can't learn unlearn, and relearn"
--Alvin Toffler

"Schools are among the very few institutions that have remained almost entirely unchanged for most of this century."
-- Judith Aitken 

"Every organisation has to prepare for the abandonment of every thing it does. Be prepared to abandon everything, lest we have to abandon the ship."
--  Peter Drucker

"The principal goal of education is to create [human beings] who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done."
--Jean Piaget

1 comment:

Lynn Waldsmith said...

GREAT quotes! I especially love Edison's.

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