"If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?"

-- Paul Lockhart

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“When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.”
“If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.”

Source : Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.82, Penguin
“You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.”
“I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.”
“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”
“The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.”
“All my father saw was what he wanted to see.”
“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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