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Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Successful software always gets changed.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.