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Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.

Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

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

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.

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