November 19, 2008

"The young child approaching a new subject or a new problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field."
--Jerome Bruner

"A child's attitude towards everything is an artist's attitude."
--Willa Cather

"All true thoughts have been thought through already a thousand times; but to make them truly yours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
--Goethe

"Being 'educated' means knowing how little I really know."
--Carol T. Lloyd

September 22, 2008

"All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate."
--John Dewey

"To be a teacher you must be a prophet--because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future."
--Gordon Brown, MIT

"Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do."
--Art Costa