I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand
Anonymous
You cannot teach a man anything.
You can only help him discover it within himself.
Galileo
Who teaches, learns.
John Amos Comenius, 17th century European education theorist
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W.B. Yeats
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA
Our … advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration … If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but nonhostile manner.
Francis Crick, the other co-discoverer of DNA
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer of the 18th and 19th centuries
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Native American proverb
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
The best way I know to defeat an enemy is to make him (or her) a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
A clash in doctrines is not a disaster; it is an opportunity.
John Cardinal Newman
Tell me and I’ll listen. Show me and I’ll watch. Involve me and I’ll learn.
Teton Lakota Indians
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
Russian Proverb
If we never fight, how can we ever get to know each other?
Cantonese proverb
He (or she) that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our friend.
Edmund Burke
A rope of three strands is not easily parted. (Tali yang tiga lembar itu tak suang-suang putus)
Malay proverb
If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost.
Malay proverb
The hand that gives, gathers.
English proverb
The wise do not lay up treasure. The more they give to others, the more they have for themselves.
Lao-Tze, The Simple Way
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
``I never had a group like this before,'' Iverson said afterward. ``I'm happy when they're happy, and I hurt when they hurt.''
A man there was, though some did count him mad.
The more he cast away, the more he had.
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
What I hear, I forget. What I hear and see I remember. What I do, I understand.
Chinese proverb
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Source unknown
A joy shared is a joy doubled
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), poet, novelist, playwright, and natural philosopher
What a child can do with assistance today, [she] will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
L.S. Vygotsky, 1978: 87
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson, one of the winningest coaches in professional basketball, June 15, 2001, AFP, retrieved 30 June 2001 from http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/010616/1/yuni.html
It’s wonderful for the players. It’s a hug challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn’t going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.
All-star basketball player Kobe Bryant commenting on Phil Jackson’s approach of giving responsibility to his players. June 15, 2001, AFP, retrieved 30 June 2001 from http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/010616/1/yuni.html
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 263
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 278
One for all and all for one.
Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers
United we stand, divided we fall.
Anonymous
Two heads are better than one.
Anonymous
All weaves one fabric; all things give/Power unto all to work and live
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Anonymous, from the internet
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque’s studio or Brque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other’s work. A canvas wasn’t finished unless both of us felt it was.
Pablo Picasso (in a letter to Francoise Gilot)
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of
life, that no man can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects
Confucius
We are caught in a network of mutuality. We are tied in a single garment of destiny. What affects one directly, affects us all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The pursuit of truth in the company of friends
Motto of an unidentified college (cited in Palmer, P. J. [1998, p. 90]. The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.)
Real learning does not happen until students are brought into relationship with the teacher, with each other, and with the subject. We cannot learn deeply and well until a community of learning is created in the classroom.
P. J. Palmer (1993). To know as we are known: Education as a spiritual journey. San Francisco: Harper.
Five people were invited, ten showed up. Put more water in the soup and everybody enjoy!
Swedish proverb
True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (2nd President of Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist organization), quoted in: Bethel, D.M., Education for Creative Living (Iowa State University Press, 1991)
Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (2nd President of Soka Gakki, a Buddhist organization), quoted in: Bethel, D.M., Education for Creative Living (Iowa State University Press, 1991)
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding, in spite of distances or thoughts expressed, can make of this earth a garden.
Goethe
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Bible
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Preston Bradley
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
Claude M. Bristol
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
Rev. Michael Burry <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_burry_revmichael.html>
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
Mark Caine <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_caine_mark.html>
It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
Ralph Charell <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_charell_ralph.html>
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_dudley_charles.html>
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_einstein_albert.html>
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_fuller_buckminster.html>
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
Edward Gardner <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_gardner_edward.html>
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_gibson_althea.html>
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
William Hazlitt <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_hazlitt_william.html>
I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
Jessie Hill <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_hill_jessie.html>
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Quincy Jones <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_jones_quincy.html>
God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.
Spencer W. Kimball
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner
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The best answer to the question, ‘What is the most effective method of teaching?’ is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, ‘Students teaching other students.’
McKeachie, W. J., Pintrich, P. R., Lin, Y., & Smith, D. A. (1986). Teaching and learning in the college classroom: A review of the research literature. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Maxwell Maltz <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_maltz_maxwell.html>
As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.
George Lucas, producer of the Star Wars movies. In Edutopia, Spring 2001, p. 2.
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
Paul McCartney <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_mccartney_paul.html>
We do not exist for ourselves...
Thomas Merton <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_merton_thomas.html>
Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.
Julia A. Moore
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Irish Proverb <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_proverb_irish.html>
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_shinn_george.html>
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
W. Clement Stone
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_tracy_brian.html>
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.
Jeff Warner
Thinking, Change, and Controversy
We learn how to learn by learning and to think by thinking. There's no point in trying to think for our students.
Richard Paul
We cannot change other, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
Melodie Beattie
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek proverb
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize-winner
Tell children what to think
and you make them slaves to knowledge
Teach children how to think
and you make knowledge their slave.
Henry J Tait
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
John Updike, novelist, Picked Up Pieces
Children enter schools as question marks and leave as periods.
Neil Postman
The job of a citizen is to keep his (or her) mouth open
Gunter Grass, novelist, Nobel laureate
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions
Adlai Stevenson, politician and ambassador
You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Charles C Nold
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomber
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul,
The mind’s the standard of the man.
Isaac Watts
Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.
West African proverb
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
It may be that those who do most dream most.
Stephen Leacock
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted.
Einstein
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
M.K. Gandhi
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
What you do speaks so loudly they can't hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok, Former President, Harvard University
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
H.G. Wells
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filing of a vessel.
Socrates
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead.
George Saville, Maxims
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interested in the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.
Noam Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge, 1988
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner, Education in 1984
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselves and for this writing is the prime medium.
Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardmalia, Learning to Write: First Language/Second Language
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care
There is nothing new except that which has been forgotten.
Mlle. Bertin, Marie Antoinette's dressmaker
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Maria Montesorri
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
Think wrongly, if you please, but for all cases, think for yourself
Doris Lessing
Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them.
The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize-winner
The person who never made a mistake never made anything.
Business aphorism
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problems that exist in the world can't be solved by the same type of thinking that caused them.
Albert Einstein
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We are afraid," they said.
"Come to the edge," he said.
They came. He pushed them.
And they flew.
Apollinaire
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said, “If I told you, it would defeat the purpose”.
Anonymous, from the Internet
Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were live forever.
Gandhi