- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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Edison with his phonograph
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Edison with his phonograph
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
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And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
~Maria Montessori
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
-Leonardo da Vinci
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
-John Holt
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-Abraham Lincoln
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"Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
-Anne Sullivan
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
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"Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
-Plato
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-Louis Pasteur
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him
and let him know that you trust him.
-Booker T. Washington
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The most important motive in the school and in life is the pleasure in the work.
-Albert Einstein
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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
~Winston Churchill
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But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
-Jean Piaget
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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
-John Holt
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Education is understanding relationships.
~George Washington Carver
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To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas Edison
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The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
-Marvin Minsky
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~Maria Montessori
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~ Albert Einstein
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
-Aristotle
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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
-Benjamin Franklin
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