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Teaching, Learning, and Technology

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Diana Dell, Ed.S.


Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of

information can drive out knowledge.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin


The important thing is to not stop questioning.

~ Albert Einstein


It is possible to store the mind with millions of

facts and still be entirely uneducated.

~Alec Bourne


Fredrick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from

slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom.

But reading is still the path.

~Carl Sagan


I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

~ Confucius


We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

~Galileo Galilei


The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you

to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your

own mind.

~ Kahlil Gibran


The great trouble with most men is that those who have

been educated become uneducated just as soon as

they stop inquiring and investigating life and its

problems for themselves.

~ Newton Diehl Baker


One learns by doing a thing; for though

you think you know it, you have no certainty

until you try.

~ Sophocles


I learn by going where I have to go.

~ Theodore Roethke


I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order

to learn how to do it.

~ Vincent Van Gogh


If you study to remember, you will forget, but

if you study to understand, you will remember.

~Unknown


The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning

from everyday experience.

~Unknown


The knowledge of the world is only to be

acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

~Lord Chesterfield


Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

~W. B. Yeats


The beautiful thing about learning is that no

one can take it away from you.

~B.B. King


A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot

afford to be fooled.

~James Baldwin


Education beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the

balance-wheel of the social machinery. ~Horace Mann


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,

those the art of living well.

~Aristotle


Never stop learning; knowledge doubles

every fourteen months.

~Anthony J. D'Angelo


If you can read this, thank a teacher.

~Anonymous


We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no

longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading

them, however, has not changed...

~Lawrence Clark Powell


To teach is to learn.

~Chinese proverb


By learning you will teach;

by teaching you will learn.

~Latin proverb


Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals

with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times

they accomplish this impossible task.

~Haim G. Ginot


One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to

those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much

necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant

and for the soul of the child.

~Carl Jung


The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of

investigation is incomparably the best.

~Edmund Burke


There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher’. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the

entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

~Pat Conroy


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and

you feed him for a lifetime.

~Chinese proverb


To question is to teach.

~ Xenophon


The art of teaching isthe art of assisting

discovery.

~Mark Van Doren


As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we

must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying

until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

~ Albert Shanker


To be a teacher is to be forever an

optimist.

~Philip Bigler


When you make the finding yourself –

even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light –

you'll never forget it.~Carl Sagan


Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us

nothing but the shape of the spoon.

~E. M. Forster


Effective teaching may be the hardest

job there is.

~William Glasser


Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I

give you one corner, and it is for you to find the

other three.

~Confucius


No man can be a good teacher unless he has

feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a

genuine desire to impart to them what he himself

believes to be of value.

~Bertrand Russell


Memorization is what we resort to when

what we are learning makes no sense.

~Anonymous


The great end of education is to discipline rather than to

furnish the mind; To train it to the use of its own powers

rather than to fill it with the accumulation of

others.

~Tryon Edwards


Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome

the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always

excited me more than the

intelligence quotient. ~Eugene S. Wilson


Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

~Chinese Proverb


The only dumb question is a question

you don't ask.

~ Paul MacCready


Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who

asked why.

~Bernard M. Baruch


Questions are the creative acts of

intelligence.

~ Frank Kingdom


Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

~ Nikki Giovanni


If you think you can, you can. And if you

think you can't, you're right.

~ Mary Kay Ash


Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we

currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet

discover and create. ~ Einstein


Creativity is the production of

meaning by synthesis.

~ Alex Osborn


The idea is there locked inside. All you have to

do is remove the excess stone.

~Michelangelo


On being asked how he had "discovered" the

law of gravitation, Newton replied “by

thinking on it continually."

~ Isaac Newton


The basis of creativity has always been a new

connection. To make connections would take hours

using words. Your subconscious has to use pictures. ~ William J.J. Gordon


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those

who cannot read and write, but those who

cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

~Alvin Toffler


Technology has limitations on what it

can accomplish. You do not…

~Lou Gerstner


The next big killer application on the

Internet is going to be education.

~John Chambers


Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-

mail usage look like a rounding error.

~John Chambers


Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.

~Gandhi


Personally, I am always ready to learn, although

I do not always like being taught.

~ Winston Churchill


Learning is not a spectator sport.

~D. Blocher


For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivated. To be motivated, they must become interested. And they become interested when they are actively working on projects which

they can relate to their values and goals in life.

~ Gus Tuberville, President, William Penn College


I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to

provide the conditions in which they can learn.

~Albert Einstein


The biggest enemy to learning

is the talking teacher.

~John Holt


All genuine knowledge

originates in direct experience.

~ Mao Zedong


Change is the end

result of all true learning.

~Leo F. Buscaglia


Learning how to learn

is life’s most important skill.

~Anonymous


I find that a great part of the information I have was

acquired by looking up something and

finding something else on the way.

~Franklin P. Adams


I have always imagined that Paradise

will be a kind of library.

~Jorge Luis Borges


I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways

that don't work.

~Thomas A. Edison


You must do the thing you think you can not

do.

~Eleanor Roosevelt


You can not fail... unless you quit.

~ Abraham Lincoln


Be the change you want to see in the

world.

~ Mahatma Ghandhi


Whatever the mind can conceive and

believe, the mind can

achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill


Learning is messy. Performance is neat.

~Yvone Lenard


There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the

level of self-esteem,the more likely one will be to

treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

~Nathaniel Branden


Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing,

taking risks,breaking rules, making

mistakes, and having fun.

~ Mary Lou Cook


If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow. . . go to the cutting edge of your competence, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't

quite know what you're doing, know you are growing.

~Madeline Hunter


What we want for our children...we should want for

their teachers; that schools be places of learning for both of

them, and that such learning be suffused with excitement,

engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and joy. ~Andy Hargraves


Power comes from effectively combining information with

technological capacity and the creative capacities of human

beings.

~Lois Gander


"...if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we

rob our children of tomorrow."

~John Dewey

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