Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Children need models rather than critics.
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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