Abigail Adams " "Learning is not attained by chance.  It must be sought for with ardor and attended with diligence." 

Anonymous "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Anonymous "Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll learn."

Anonymous. "Press On. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; e world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Anonymous. Procrastination: A hardening of the oughteries.

Arab Proverb?
"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child; teach him.
He who knows but knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him."

Francis Bacon "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer "One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community."

Bronowski, (1976) "Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts."

Thomas Carlye "All a university or final highest school can do for us is still but what the first school began doing ---teach us to read..." (Heroes and Hero Worship)

Thomas Carlyle. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Chinese Proverb "The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory."

Chuang Tzu (circa  300 BC) "To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge."

Kuan Chung Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime.(7th Century B.C.)

Winston Churchill  "The further backward you look, the further forward you can see."

Frank Christ  "Tutor students and they will return for more tutoring again and again. Teach students learning and study strategies and they will become independent learners for life."

W. Edward Deming "Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest."

Richard Downing "The best way to achieve a better partnership between academic staff and learning support staff is to combine them in staff development activities. Separate initiatives only help to confirm the separation." [12.10.98] richard.downing@lineone.net

Peter Drucker "Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book....Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care?...Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without a visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable.... Already we are beginning to deliver more lectures and classes off campus via satellite or two-way video at a fraction of the cost. The college won't survive as a residential institution. Today's buildings are hopelessly unsuited and totally unneeded." ( "Seeing Things As They Really Are" published in Forbes, March 10, 1997) [2/21/2000 Gary Probst on LRNASST]

Ralph W. Emerson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Anna Freud "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Ganey, Loyd R. "Connect the Disconnected" (referring to the online student)

L. Gardner "Most university students have never been formally taught to learn how to study, either in high school or college."  Gardner, L. (1998). Why we must change: The research evidence. Thought and Action. 14 (Spring), 71-88.

Bill Gates "640K ought to be enough for anybody." (Attributed 1981) .

Ralph W. Gerard. "There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual." ("The New Computerized Shape of Education" in W.Z. Hirsch (Ed) Inventing Education for the Future. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co., 1967).

E. J.Gleazer, Jr. "Meet the student where he is. I am increasingly impatient with people who ask whether a student is "college material." We are not building a college with a student. The question we ought to ask is whether the college is of sufficient student material. It is the student we are building, and it is the function of the college to facilitate that process.", "The Community College Issue of the '1970s" Educational Record, Winter, 1970, p. 50.

Goethe "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it..."

Goethe "Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do."

Goethe. "Lose this day loitering - 'twill be the same story tomorrow and the next more dilatory. Then indecesion brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? What you dream to do or think you can do, only begin it. Then the mind grows heated. Begin it, and work will be completed."

Alan E. Guskin "Focusing on student learning turns our thinking about the future of our colleges and universtities upside-down: from faculty productivity to student productivity, from faculty disciplinary interests to what students need to learn, from faculty teaching styles to student learning styles, from classroom teaching to student learning." [ Change, July/August 1994]

Carl Hansen (Amidon Elementary School/Intro) "Nothing happens in teaching unless it happens to the learner........"

Dee Hock ( Founder of Visa) "The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."

Eric Hoffer "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Oliver Wendell Homes "The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions..."

Robert Hutchins "For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable."

W. James (Talks to Teachers on Psychology) "An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it. ...."

W. James "Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Samuel Johnson "The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Janis Joplin "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

Kierkegard "Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he learns and the way he learns it."

Sister Mary Lauretta "To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work."

J. Krishnamurti "Learning is the very essence of humility,learning from everything and everybody. There is no hierarchy in learning. Authority denies learning and a follower will never learn." ( J. Krishnamurti 's Notebook.)

Kuan-tze "If you are planning for a year, sow rice.If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime , educate the mind." (Chinese Proverb )

Niccolo Machiavelli "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

John Henry Newman "An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else."

Ken Olson "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." (President, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977).

Maria Mitchell "The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer."

Mary Pickford "If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Colin Powell. "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, and persistence."

Carl Rogers (1962) " ... in our work with students it's the quality of our relationship with them, not the content we teach, that is the most significant element determining our effectiveness."

Carl Rogers "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned to learn; the person who has learned how to adapt and change; the person who has realized that no knowledge is secure, that only the process of seeking knowledge gives a basis for security." Freedom to Learn, 1969.

Carl Rogers "[knowledge that] ...suffers that final degradation of becoming 'classroom knowledge' where the dead words of an author are dissected and poured into the minds of passive students so that live individuals carry about the dead and dissected portions of what were once living thoughts and experiiences, without even the awareness that they were once living..." (In Preface to Client Centered Therapy)

Eleanor Roosevelt "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Pete Seeger "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't."

Lyle E. Schaller "The innovator is not an opponent of the old, he is a proponent of the new."

G. B. Shaw "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Charles Silberman "Learning is likely to be more effective if it grows out of what interests the learner, rather than what interests the teacher."

Beverly Sills "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

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

Rick Thoman, Xerox Corp President & CEO "For all of us to win in the knowledge economy, we need to unleash the knowledge in our document databases, use and reuse our past knowledge, find ways to create new knowledge and then share it across our enterprise."

Marlo Thomas "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."

Alvin Toffler. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Lao Tzu.  "If you tell me, I will listen.
                   If you show me, I will see.
                   If you let me experience, I will learn!"

"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who cannot read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn." (Herbert Gerjuoy as quoted in Future Shock, 1970, p. 414)

Thomas Watson "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Chairman of IBM, 1943)

Alfred North Whitehead. "First hand knowledge is the ultimate basis of intellectual life. To a large extent book-learning conveys second-hand information, and as such can never rise to the importance of immediate practice. Our goal is to see the immediate events of our lives as instances of our general ideas.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. It is tame because it has never been scared by facts. (Aims of Education (mentor, 1949), p. 61)

Oprah Winfrey "No matter how diligent or persisient you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves"