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Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:44 +0000

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
–Virginia Woolf

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:36 +0000

If your professor wrote it, it’s as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
–John Watson, University of Canterbury

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:28 +0000

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
–William Arthur Ward

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:18 +0000

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
–Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:28 +0000

Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
–G. M. Trevelyan

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:22 +0000

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
–Socrates

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:16 +0000

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
–Smith & Jones

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:09 +0000

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
–B.F. Skinner

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:03 +0000

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
–George Bernard Shaw

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:15:53 +0000

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
–Leslie Jeanne Sahler