Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. -Josef Albers

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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions
than a giving of right answers. -Josef Albers
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It is important that students bring a certain
ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their
studies they are not here to worship what is
known, but to question it.-Jacob Bronowski
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We think too much about effective methods of
teaching and not enough about effective methods
of learning.-John Carolus
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I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I
do, and I understand.-Chinese proverb
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It is supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge. -Albert
Einstein
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Education is a mans going forward from cocksure
ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. -Kenneth G.
Johnson
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I have been maturing as a teacher. New
experiences bring new sensitivities and
flexibility -Howard Lester
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Educationbeyond all other devices of human
origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men
the balance wheel of the social machinery. It
does better than to disarm the poor of their
hostility toward the rich it prevents being
poor. -Horace Mann
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a
fire to be ignited.-Plutarch
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Human history becomes more and more a race
between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the
amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of
facts. -Henry Brooks Adams
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively
unnecessary.-Thomas Carruthers
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take
home to think about besides homework. -Edith Ann
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Imagine a school with children that can read or
write, but teachers who cannot, and you have a
metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-Peter Cochrane
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Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence. -Robert Frost
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Good writing is rewriting. -Truman Capote
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing Read, read,
read, and write, write write. -Ernest Gaines
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The problem is to teach ourselves to think, and
the writing will take care of itself.
-Christopher Mobley
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write
well, but by writing well we are brought to write
quickly. -Quintilian
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an
advance into new land.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If one corrupts language, language can also
corrupt thought.-George Orwell
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.-Miguel de
Cervantes
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I dont pretend we have all the answers. But the
questions are certainly worth thinking about.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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I write to find out what Im thinking, what Im
looking at, what I see and what it means. What I
dont want and what I fear.-Joan Didion
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence. The
important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein
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Only those who risk going too far can possibly
find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot
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How do I know what I think until I see what I
say? -E.M. Forster
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The human mind is like an umbrella. It functions
best when open.-Max Gropius
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Stupidity is no excuse for not thinking.
-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The only time I know that something is true is
the moment I discover it in the act of writing.
-Jean Malaquais
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and
in retrospection.-Anais Nin
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain
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The brain that doesnt feed itself, eats itself.
-Gore Vidal
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Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde
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Writing is thinking on paper. -William Zinsser
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If you think of the Internet as a place to look
up stuff youre missing the best part.
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Students learn what they care about, from people
they care about and who, they know, care about
them.-Barbara Harrell Carson
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Merely looking at a strangers Twitter or
Facebook feed isnt interesting, because it seems
like blather. Follow if for a day, though, and
it begins to feel like a short story follow it
for a month, and its a novel. NY Times 9-7-09
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path
without brightening our own.-Ben Sweetland
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I touch the future, I teach. -Christa McAuliffe