Great quotes - some could be useful for KRC October 15, 2010

Hi Kelechi

I got these quotes from twitter when I started to follow http://twitter.com/#!/DoTheMathBooks.

I enjoyed reading them - then I thought you might find some useful at Knowledge Resource Centre  - when you need to offer alternatives to rote-learning assumptions and habits.
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Education: Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.-Kenneth G. Johnson #quote

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. Andre Gide #quote

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.-Elbert Hubbard #quote

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing–the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound #quote

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.- Ralph Waldo Emerson #quote

Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne #quote

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke #quote

I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you.-GB Shaw #quote

Education: A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. George Bernard Shaw
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Pam

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