EDU101.0002Quotes

These are quotes collected by students in EDU 101-001 at University of Maine at Farmington.
__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.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi Contributed by Alex S.

"With education comes refinement." - Jay-Z, BestLife Magazine Interview Contributed by Tim G.

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - da Vinci Contributed by Bri D.

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." ~Author Unknown Contributed by Eric D.

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." - Robert Heinlein Contributed by Taylor H.

"Great talent finds happiness in execution" -Goethe Contributed by Mike H.

The Dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "Truth." - Dan Rather Contributed by Robert Y

" The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Ward Contributed by Casey Jez

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." Ben Sweetland Contributed by Logan F.

"Education, education, education! Education is the key. Perhaps teaching young people that discrimination and intolerance are unacceptable means of expression could do some good in making them better adults." - Henry Rollins Contributed by Ben V.

"It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves." ~Robert Hutchins Contributed by

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty" - Albert Einstein Contributed by Amy E.

"People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." ~James Baldwin Contributed by Sarah B

"Every child can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way." - George Evans Contributed by

"Love what you do. Do what you love." -Wayne Dyer Contributed by Kaitlyn B.

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for other" ~ Author Unknown Contributed by Edgar S.

"Better to o something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly"- Robert Schuller Contributed by Cheryl W

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty" -Henry Ford Contributed by Matt W