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EDUCATION/

LEARNING

QUOTATION

POSTERS

AND

STUDENT

ACTIVITY

EDUCATION

Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember

Involve me and I learn

~Ben Franklin

QUOTATIONS

A.A. MILNE, SOCRATES,

NELSON MANDELA,

JOHN DEWEY, ABIGAIL

ADAMS, JOHN MILTON,

ROSA PARKS, ERIC

FROMM, BEN

FRANKLIN, ALLAN

BLOOM, WILLA

CATHER, ABRAHAM

LINCOLN

AND MORE...

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Tell me and I forget.

Teach me and I remember

Involve me and I learn

~ Benjamin Franklin

Education

is the most powerful weapon

which you can use

to change the world

~ Nelson Mandela

I cannot teach anybody anything,

I can only make them think.

~ Socrates

Learning is not attained by chance.

It must be sought with ardor

and attended to with diligence

~ Abigail Smith Adams

Teachers open the door,

but you must enter by yourself

~ Chinese Proverb

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Education is not preparation

for life ,

education is

life itself

~ John Dewey

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

~ Abigail Adams

Learning without thought,

is labor lost

~ Confucius

To the uneducated,

the letter A is just three sticks 

~ A.A. Milne

Stories of the heart are what live in the memory,

and when you move the reader to tears you have won them to you forever

~ Louisa May Alcott

Childhood

shows the man

as morning

shows the day

~ John Milton

Memories of our lives,

of our works and our deeds

will continue in others

~ Rosa Parks

We are only capable of knowing, and caring

for the other,

if we are also capable of understanding, caring, and knowing ourselves

~ Eric Fromm

The privilege of a lifetime

is being who you are ~ Joseph Campbell

A child educated only at school

is an uneducated child

~ George Santayana

Education is the movement

from darkness to light 

~ Allan Bloom

You don't understand anything

until you learn it

more than one way 

~ Marvin Minsky

Always walk through life as if you

have something new to learn

and you will

~ Vernon Howard

I don't think much of a man

who is not wiser today

than he was yesterday

~ Abraham Lincoln

There are some things you

learn best in calm,

and some in storm 

~ Willa Cather

We learn more by looking for the

answer to a question

and not finding it ,

than we do from

learning the answer itself

~ Lloyd Alexander

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading

and the other by associations with smarter people

~ Will Rogers

It is the mark of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it 

~ Aristotle

He who opens a school door, closes a prison

~ Victor Hugo

Anyone who stops

learning is old,

whether at

twenty or eighty 

~ Henry Ford

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember

Involve me and I learn ~ Benjamin Franklin

Education is the most powerful weapon

which you can use to change the world

~ Nelson Mandela

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

~ Socrates

Learning is not attained by chance It must be sought with ardor

and attended to with diligence ~ Abigail Smith Adams

Teachers open the door,

but you must enter by your

~ Chinese Proverb

Education is not preparation

for life ,education is life itself

~ John Dewey

Learning without thought, is labor lost

~ Confucius

To the uneducated,

the letter A is just three sticks 

~A.A. Milne

Childhood shows the man

as morning shows the day

~ John Milton

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds

will continue in others

~ Rosa Parks

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We are only capable of knowing, and caring

for the other, if we are also capable of

understanding, caring, and knowing ourselves

~Eric Fromm

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child

~George Santayana

Always walk through life as if you

have something new to learn and you will

~Vernon Howard

Education is the movement from darkness to light

~Allan Bloom

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are

~ Joseph Campbell

You don't understand anything

until you learn it

more than one way  ~Marvin Minsky

I don't think much of a man who is

not wiser today than he was yesterday 

~Abraham Lincoln

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not

finding it than we do from learning

the answer itself

~Lloyd Alexander

There are some things you learn

best in calm, and some in storm

~Willa Cather

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading and the other by associations with smarter people

~Will Rogers

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It is the mark of an educated

mind to be able to entertain a

thought without accepting it

~Aristotle

He who opens a school door,

closes a prison

~Victor Hugo

Anyone who stops learning is old,

whether at twenty or eighty

~Henry Ford

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Quotations

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QUOTATIONS - MY SUGGESTIONS

The posters are 8 1/2 x 11. Print on heavier stock paper for display in the classroom.

I created this project a number of years ago to use with my English classes. The quotations I gathered were to challenge my students to think about the power of education and learning and to inspire them to put great effortand pride in all that they do.

I display two or three posters a month as “food for thought”.

I have my students do a mini research project right before Presidents’ Day. We have discussions about education and learning and I ask for feedback about the quotations. I always have some amazing responses!

Here are some examples of their responses during our discussions:

“I never thought about education and that there were so many people who wrote about it”.“After reading the quotation I picked, I decided to put more effort into my homework”.“I’ve never liked reading, but after I did the project, I decided to read more books.”

STUDENT PROJECT - MINI REPORT

When I display the first poster in class in the beginning of the year, I explain that I’ll be displaying two or three a month and that they should read and think about them.

I have them do the mini research report in February just before Presidents’ Day.

HOW TO DO THE REPORTPrior to Presidents’ Day...

Make copies of the three quotation sheets (with the 23 quotations) and distribute them to your students.

Have your students read the quotations, but at this point, they shouldn’t try to interpret them. Explain that they should think about the quotations and then choose one (or more) person/people to research.

Make copies of the research page where they enter information about the person or people they choose to research. Some like to research more than one person.

Have your students find information on the Web about the people or person they choose.

Explain that the four facts on the student research page should include the person’s occupation (philosopher, educator, politician,etc) and other important facts about the person.

I have them cut the quotations from the student pages and paste them in the boxes on the research page.

Have them get into small groups so they can share their information sheets. I also explain that everyone has a right to his/her opinion and that one interpretation isn’t necessarily the correct one.

I encourage them to discuss their interpretations of the quotations. This leads to great discussions about the various interpretations.

Many times I’ll stop the groups briefly and ask, for example, who had done research about Marvin Minsky. I ask those students to explain what the quotation means so that the whole group hears different interpretations.

I also display the students’ papers with their interpretations.

Some of these quotations are more difficult than others to interpret therefore pick and choose the ones that you want to use depending on the age/ability level of your students.

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