101.0002FiveQuotes

These are the favorites of all the quotes collected by students in EDU 101-001 at University of Maine at Farmington. In this assignment, students were asked to find 4 quotes that speak to them about what they believe about teaching, learning, and/or their concentration/specialization.

__Directions:__ 1. Write your quote. Put quotation marks around it. 2. Put the name of the author and the source. 3. Write "contributed by: " and then your name. (Just use your first name and last initial.) 4. Insert a horizontal line below your entry.

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." Pope, //Essay on Criticism, II// Contributed by: Brittany R.

"Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding." ~ William Arthur Ward Contributed by Cidney M.

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward Contributed by Ally H.

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is precieved as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."- Albert Einstein Contributed by Dan K.

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." -Kahlil Gibran Contributed by Frank P.

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." -Graham Greene, //The Power and the Glory// Contributed by Jeremiah R

"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert Contributed by Jonathan B.

"All that I do not love, I have overlooked." -Unknown Contributed by Johnny B.

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -Malcolm Forbes Contributed by Michael R.

"Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education." - George H. W. Bush Contributed by Jake R.

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles Contributed by Brody F.

"The best teacher lodges and intent not in the mind, but in the heart." - Anne Michaels, //The Fugitive Pieces// Contributed by Mel C.

"I have never let schooling interfere with my education" -Mark Twain Contributed by Richie J.

"Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that is number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady stream of mathematics gazing at 1 in wonder and awe." -Linear Algebra by Fraleigh/Beauregard Contributed by Kelsea T.

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire" W.B Yeats Contributed by: Alyssa A.

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can loose." Tom Krause Contributed by Leanne F.

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I will learn." -Benjamin Franklin Contributed by Lauren D.

"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil" -Unknown Contributed by Lauren P.