Quotes
about Technology and Education
"Each school can become what it was always meant to
be...
a building that has four
walls with tomorrow inside." John
Fakers
"Good teaching is more important than good hardware. The effective teacher steps in at the right time - intervenes - to bring about a burst of newly directed activity." Jamie McKenzie
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the
pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold
iron.” Horace Mann
“Involve me, and I will understand.” Ancient Chinese Proverb
Dr. Will Daggett says,
“Learning is an active process. Unfortunately, in many classrooms children are
placed in the passive role. They come to school to watch their teachers work.”
"Our
schools are structured around teachers and courses; it is time to restructure
our schools around students and learning." Dr. Will Daggett
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
W.B. Yeats
If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.
Phillip Schlechty
Students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their
attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their
compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control.
Phillip Schlechty
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have
already mastered, you will never grow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart,
the values it holds are its soul.
From Making Common Sense Common Practice, by Buzzotta/Lefton/Cheney/Beatty
(New Leaders Press)
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering
"We
all want independent-knowledge workers, not just fact gatherers," says
Bernie Dodge. "WebQuests are inquiry-oriented activities in which some
or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on
the Internet."
"WebQuests are designed to use learners' time
well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support
learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and
evaluation." Bernie Dodge
"WebQuests use a central question that honestly
needs answering. When students are asked to understand, hypothesize or
problem-solve an issue that confronts the real world, they face an authentic
task, not something that only carries meaning in a school classroom." Tom
March
We must prepare children for
their future, not our past! David Thornburg
There are really only three types of people: those who make things
happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?
Ann Landers
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their
minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to
worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a
comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put
up.
G.K. Chesterton
There is no way to make people like change. You can only make them feel
less threatened by it.
Frederick Hayes
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought
progress.
George Kettering
There is nothing permanent except change.
Greek Proverb
Times change and we change with them.
Latin proverb
The wise person makes learning a joy;
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself.
Leo Tolstoy
If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up
where we are headed.
Chinese proverb
The best teacher is the one who suggests, rather than dogmatizes, and
inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English Novelist
Self-initiated learning, once begun, develops its own momentum.
Ray Hartjen
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Pema Chodron, from her book, When Things Fall Apart
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
A mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original
dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible
Theodore Roosevelt
Even when I was young I suspected that much might be done in a better
way.
Henry Ford, Sr.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one
knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Turkish proverb
"Efficiency is donig the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the
right thing."
Peter F. Drucker
Reform must come from within, not from without.
James Gibbons
Every reform was once a private opinion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see.
Winston Churchill
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate overselves; otherwise, we
harden."
Goethe
"Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average
down."
William M. Winans
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two
small jumps."
"A person who follows in another's track leaves no
footprints."
"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but
to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Actually, the good news is that great minds don't always
think alike."
Goldman Sachs advertisement in the Wall St. Journal, January 2000
"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far
less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
"In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what
you are doing, and believe in what you are doing."
Will Rogers
"Many things can wait; the child cannot. Now is the time his bones
are being formed, his mind is being developed. To him, we cannot say tomorrow;
his name is today"
Gabriela Mistral
"We can talk or dream about the glorious schools of the future or
we can create them."
Marilyn Ferguson
"Who wants change? Things are bad enough as they are."
Lord Salisbury
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Semisonic, "Closing Time''
"Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for
the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
sit there."
Will Rogers
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get
there."
Josh Billings
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality
which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new."
Albert Einstein
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the
situation."
Edward R. Murrow
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom."
Francis Bacon
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built
for."
John A. Shedd
"My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest
of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or
lose"
Lyndon B. Johnson
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you
didn't."
Martin Van Buren
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
Jonathan Winters
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem,
but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
John Foster Dulles
"One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better
than half-a-hundred half-finished tasks."
B. C. Forbes
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep
moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going
off the main road, by trying the untried."
Frank Tyger
"When one teaches, two learn."
Robert Half
"The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the
biggest mistake of all - doing nothing."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you're treading water, you're losing ground."
Stephen W. Comiskey
"Recovering from failure is often easier than
building from success." Michael D. Eisner