things that make you go hmmm

Learning is not a spectator sport.
-- Anonymous

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences...
Amos Alcott

Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
Sophocles

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.
John Carolus S.J.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, To have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
Vladimir Lenin

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw