"I believe that education must be conceived as a continuing
reconstruction of experience, that the process and the goal of
education are the same thing.
I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living
and not a preparation for future living."
-- John Dewey,
My Pedagogic Creed
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"The teacher is not only a communicator but a
model. To communicate knowledge and to provide a model of
competence, the teacher must be free to teach and learn."
--
Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education
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"We think we learn from teachers, and we
sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in
school, or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn
depends on our own powers of insight. Moreover, our teachers may
be hidden, even the greatest teacher."
-- Loren Eiseley,
"The Hidden Teacher" in The Star Thrower
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"A manual? Give me a break! Let me get in there
and muck around and try various things and see what happens."
-- John Seely Brown,
"Learning, Working, and Playing in the Digital Age"
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor
will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar
talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher
himself."
--John Jay Chapman
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"If a man will come to me with a problem he will
have a partner for a solution. If he waits until after the fact,
I will be his judge."
--George Washington
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"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although
I do not always like being taught."
--Winston Churchill
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."
--Claus Meir, "In Defense of Mediocrity"
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"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never
does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt
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"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have
to play better than anyone else."
--Diane Feinstein
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“. . .if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely
everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
--Ivan Turgenev
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"If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,
try ordering somebody else's dog around."
--Will Rogers
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty
sure that it's not in order to enjoy ourselves."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If you can't beat your computer at chess, try
kickboxing!
--Unknown
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Unknown
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"what we tend to complain about the most in
other people are those things we do not like about ourselves."
--William Wharton
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The only problem with the whole world is that,
the stupid are dead sure and the intelligent full of doubts.
--Unknown
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It's easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles
your feathers!
--Unknown
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than
to live up to them."
--Alfred Adler
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What I am doing today is important because I am
exchanging a day of my life for it.
--Unknown
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"If you want the rainbow, you must put up with the rain first"
--Dolly Parton
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"Not all who wonder are lost."
--J. R. Tolkien
Hoeger and Hoeger. (2004)
Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness, 7th
Edition. Wadsworth Publishing. (with Health, Fitness and Wellness
Internet Explorer, Profile Plus 2004 CD-ROM, Personal Daily Log, and
InfoTrac). ISBN: 0534599869
