101-001Quotes

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 under it. 4. Insert a horizontal line below your entry.

"A student is not a vessel to be filled but a lamp to be lighted." A. D. Alexandrov contributed by Dr. Theresa

"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." ~ George Iles contributed by Ted G.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein

" Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow" Mahatmas Gandhi"

"As the dog returns to his vomit, so does the fool return to his folly" Proverbs

"You can't teach what you don't know any more than you can come back from where you ain't been" Will Rogers contributed by: Alicia Kenison

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. The only thing you cannot do is ignore them. Because they change things. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." Author Unknown

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."- Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all we have been taught," - George Saville.

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

"We call it teaching. We take what we know and we pass it on to children. And they believe us." - Unknown

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." - Amos Bronson Alcott, Contributed by: Marcy Cooper

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically...Intelligence plus character-that is true education."-Martin Luther King Jr. Contributed by Sara Waters

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way." -George Evans Contributed by Laura Columbia

"We cannot hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland Contributed by Kimberly Hudson

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams Contributed by Amber Small

"We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning." - John Carolus S.J. Contributed by Melissa Audy

"The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." - Carl Sagan Contributed by Christina Knowles

"To teach is to touch the heart and impell it to action" -Louis Sullivan Contributed by Jason Millett

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we contiue to live." - Mortimer Alder Contributed by Jordan Turcotte __