On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice..
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies..
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers..
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it..
Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners..
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate..
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us..
The teacher has more power than the Minister..
Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system..
In order to learn, one must change one's mind..
What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been….
I enjoy learning technical details..
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it i….
Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure t….
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . ever….
A man had to learn, it was his nature..
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art..
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself..
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually chan….