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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." -- Edith Ann,
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between
ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I
don't care. - Richard Pratt
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. - Nicholas Murray Butler
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
-George Bernard Shaw
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." -- Perelman
"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm." -- Publilius Syrus
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." -- Sir Claus Moser
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers
"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." -- J. Bronowski,
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." -- Thomas Carruthers
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm Forbes -