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Ok, Donald, I'll play:

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-- he simply invites you
to stand beside him and see it for yourself.  (R. Inman)

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents
and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.  (Daniel J.
Boorstin)

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what
is given by the senses.  (Hannah Arendt)

We learn by doing and reflecting on what we do.  (John Dewey)

Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second.  (Bernard
Berenson)

To teach is to learn twice.  (Joseph Joubert)

A master can tell you what he expects of you.  A teacher, though, awakens
your own expectations.  (Patricia Neal)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.  (Plutarch)

What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part,
incommunicable.  (Adlai Stevenson)

Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking
educated people seriously.  (G.K. Chesterton)

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser)

Nam ne dano predugadat' kak nashe slovo otzavyotsya.  (Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin) (We can't foresee how our words will be understood.)

The people who organize the teaching of teachers ought to understand that
to really train a skilled teacher is a 20-year job.  (Leon Lederman)

If the teacher is not a strong moral force in the community, to whom shall
we turn?  (John Goodlad)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.  (H.G. Wells)

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions.  Oliver Wendal Holmes

The future of civilization is, to a great degree being written in the
classrooms of the world.  (M. L. Smith)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
(Henry Adams)

Those that can, do.  Those that can't, teach.  Those that can't teach,
teach teachers. (anon.)

I never let my education get in the way of my learning.  (Mark Twain)

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated
sufficiently to reason incorrectly.  (Montaigne)

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.  (J.D. Salinger)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
(Bertrand Russell)

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.  (Norman Douglas)

Culture is an instrument weilded by professors to manufacture professors,
who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.  (Simone Weil)

God made the Idiot for practice, then He made the School Board. (Mark Twain)

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person
may own.  If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another,
his education is incomplete.  (Norman Cousins)

As late as the mid-ninteenth century, colleges and universities in America
had, on average, about 10 faculty and 90 students.  (Ernest L. Boyer)
Boston College Magazine

Rain dances don't bring rain, but they make the tribe feel better.  (anon.)
  (I use this to point out to my students that many "reforms" in education
are nothing more than rain dances."

Dennis Showers
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