daQuotes = new Array(); function pickAQuote() { var num = Math.floor(daQuotes.length * Math.random()); return daQuotes[num]; } function putAQuote() { var q = pickAQuote(); document.getElementById("quote").innerHTML = q[0]; document.getElementById("author").innerHTML = ' -- ' + q[1]; } function dayQuote() { var now = new Date(); var num = 10000 * now.getYear() + 100 * now.getMonth() + 10 * now.getDate() + now.getDay(); q =daQuotes[num % daQuotes.length]; document.getElementById("quote").innerHTML = q[0]; document.getElementById("author").innerHTML = ' -- ' + q[1]; } /* - is hyphen */ daQuotes.push( new Array("What one knows is, in youth, of little moment:
they know enough who know how to learn.", "Henry Adams")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.", "Henry Adams" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.", "Joseph Addison" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.", "Josef Albers" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences...", "Amos Alcott" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large;
but always something still smaller and something still larger.", "Anaxagoras" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ", "Marian Anderson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.", "Susan B. Anthony" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is the best viaticum of old age.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "All who have meditated in the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of the youth.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.", "Aristotle" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer — into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.", "Nancy Astor" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ", "Francis Bacon" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.", "Francis Bacon" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.", "Francis Bacon" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.", "Francis Bacon" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.", "James Baldwin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.", "James Barrie" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.", "Jacques Barzun" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.", "Jacques Barzun" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The only thing better than education is more education.", "Agnes E. Benedict" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.", "Irving Berlin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "You can observe a lot by just looking around.", "Yogi Berra" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", "Yogi Berra" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.", "Elizabeth Bishop" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To see the world in a grain of sand.
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.", "William Blake" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.", "Niels Bohr" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education must not simply teach work — it must teach life.", "W.E.B. Du Bois" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.", "John Bradshaw" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ", "Jacob Bronowski" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.", "Charlotte Bronte" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.", "Peter Brougham")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.", "W. L. Bryan" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.", "Buddha" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.", "John Carolus S.J." )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.", "John Carolus S.J." )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.", "Joseph Campbell" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.", "Albert Camus" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.", "William Carey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.", "Catherine II of Russia" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Beware gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason.", "Miguel De Cervantes") ); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.", "Chinese Proverb" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.", "Chinese Proverb" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A flower cannot turn red without rain, and a person cannot have knowledge without learning.", "Chinese Proverb" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "By viewing the old we learn the new", "Chinese Proverb" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people.", "Kuang Chung" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.", "Winston Churchill" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Never, never, never, never give up.", "Winston Churchill" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.", "Marcus T. Cicero" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.", "Marcus T. Cicero" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.", "Marcus T. Cicero" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, To have one idea spark another.", "Marva Collins" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.", "Pierre de Coubertin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "You can pay people to teach, but you can't pay them to care.", "Marva Collins" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.", "Marva Collins" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.", "Confuscius" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.", "Confucius" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.", "Richard Courant" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.", "K. Patricia Cross" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "liste, there's a hell of a universe next door: let's go!", "e.e. cummings" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The one real object of education is to have a person in the condition of continually asking questions.", "Bishop Mandell Creighton" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To think is to differ. ", "Clarence Darrow" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.", "Charles Darwin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use.", "Charles Darwin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.", "Rene Descartes" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.", "John Dewey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.", "John Dewey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is a social process...Education is growth...Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.", "John Dewey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.", "John Dewey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.", "John Dewey" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("We grow accustomed to the dark, when light is put away.", "Emily Dickenson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss that chance to do good?", "Denis Diderot" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There is no education like adversity.", "Benjamin Disraeli " )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations.", "Benjamin Disraeli" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depricate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground.", "Frederick Douglass" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.", "Frederick Douglass" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.", "Fredrick Douglass" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.", "Will Durant" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplier.", "Albert Einstein" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.", "Albert Einstein" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.", "Albert Einstein" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", "Albert Einstein" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.", "Albert Einstein" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The whole of mahtematics is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.", "Albert Einsteing" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest", "T.S. Eliot" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time." , "T.S. Eliot" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Reinventing the wheel is a process.", "Rashid Elisha" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To arrive at the simple is difficult.", "Rashid Elisha" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.", "George Eliot" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Every artist was at first an amateur.", "Ralph Waldo Emerson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Skill to do comes of doing.", "Ralph Waldo Emerson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The secret of education lies in respecting the student.", "Ralph Waldo Emerson" )); daQuotes.push(new Array("What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.", "Ralph Waldo Emerson")); daQuotes.push( new Array("We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.", "Epictetus" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The mostly deadly of all sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit.", "Erika H. Erikson " )); daQuotes.push( new Array("We know from experience that, when it is proving very difficult to make any headway in some investigation, the first efforts usually cast very little light on our problem; and it is only by trying again and again, and by considering the same thing from several points of view, that we arrive at complete understanding.", "Leonard Euler" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead to the future.", "Euripides" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There is a great danger in the present day lest science-teaching should degenerate into the accumulation of disconnected facts and unexplained formulae, which burden the memory without cultivating the understanding.", "J. D. Everett" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.", "Richard Feynman" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.", "Henry Ford" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.", "Anatole France" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.", "Anatole France" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.", "Anne Frank" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The only thing more expensive than eduation is ignorance.", "Benjamin Franklin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.", "Benjamin Franklin")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.", "Sigmund Freud" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.", "Sigmund Freud" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.", "Sigmund Freud" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within himself.", "Galileo Galilei" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "Galileo Galilei" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There is more to life than increasing its speed.", "Mohandes Gandhi" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.", "John W. Gardner" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.", "John W. Gardner" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.", "Kahlil Gibran" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.", "Kahlil Gibran" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.", "Andre Gide" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Not too soon and not too late; the secret of education lies in choosing the right time to do things.", "Natalia Ginzburg" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am — not with what we know — but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.", "John H. Glenn, Jr." )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.", "Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects classified by name and form.", "Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?", "Katherine Graham" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is will never create the world as it might be.", "Judith Groch" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.", "Sir William Haley" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "...it has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is ever laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.", "Edith Hamilton" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.", "Sidney J. Harris")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world. ", "Louise Hay" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.", "Heraclitus" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.", "Gilbert Highet" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension.", "Oliver Wendell Holmes" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Mistakes are their own instructors.", "Horace" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing", "Elbert Hubbard" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A school should not be a preparation for life; A school should be life.", "Elbert Hubbard")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "He who opens a school door, closes a prison.", "Victor Hugo " )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.", "Pearl Strachan Hurd" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.", "Robert Maynard Hutchins" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.", "Robert Maynard Hutchins" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.", "Thomas H. Huxley" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Ask yourself each evening: What have I contributed today? What have I learned today? What have I enjoyed today?", "Lucy M. Jachera" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Sometimes one man with courage is a majority.", "Andrew Jackson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.", "William James" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "These then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.", "William James" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.", "Henry James Jr." )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.", "Thomas Jefferson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.", "Thomas Jefferson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.", "Kenneth G. Johnson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity. ", "Samuel Johnson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.", "Samuel Johnson" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.", "Mother Jones" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Do not call for black power or green power.
Call for brain power.", "Barbara Jordan" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.", "David Starr Jordan" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To teach is to learn twice.", "Joseph Joubert" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", "Helen Keller" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.", "Thomas A Kempis" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Modern cynics and skeptics...see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.", "John F. Kennedy" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.", "Gyorgy Kepes" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.", "Ellen Key" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "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 understands it.", "Soren Kierkegaard" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.", "B.B. King" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.", "Martin Luther King Jr.")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, quality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.", "Martin Luther King Jr." )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.", "Martin Luther King Jr." )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students", "Alfie Kohn" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.", "Alfred Korzybski" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier", "Charles F. Kettering" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.", "Kermit the Frog" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one's growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand How much your students can learn.", "Herbert Kohl" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Pick Battles big enough to matter, small enough to win", "Jonathan Kozol" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.", "Jonathan Kozol" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can, should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely.", "Louise Labé" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, 'Not to unlearn what you have learned!'", "Diogenes Laertius" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, \"As much as the living are to the dead.\" ", "Diogenes Laertius" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment.
Not to know and yet think we do is a disease.", "Lao-Tzu" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Learning is never done without errors and defeat.", "Vladimir Lenin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.", "Vladimir Lenin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.", "Doris Lessing")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility... ", "Howard Lester" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To do just the opposite is a form of imitation.", "Georg Lichtenberg" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.", "Abraham Lincoln" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should be doing for themselves.", "Abraham Lincoln" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.", "John Locke" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.", "John Locke" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Why are wise few, fools numerous in the excesse?
'Cause, wanting number, they are numberlesse.", "Augusta Lovelace" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.", "Ann Morrow Lindberg" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.", "John Lubbock" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The important thing is not so much that each child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.", "John Lubbock" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.", "James Madison" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To define is to destroy, to suggest is to create.", "Stephane Mallarme" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men —the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
. . . It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.", "Horace Mann" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives.", "Thomas Mann" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.", "Horace Mann" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.", "Seumas MacManus" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.", "Margaret Mead" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.", "Michelangelo" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.", "John Milton" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.", "Maria Mitchell" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination", "Auststus de Morgan" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.", "Mohammed" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("The further I go, the sorrier I am about how little I know: it is this that bothers me the most.", "Claude Monet" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Let the potential artist in our children come to life that they may surmount industrial monotonies and pressures. ", "Barbara Morgan" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education costs money, but so does ignorance.", "Sir Claude Moser" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each schoolchild in Italy is studying.", "Benito Mussolini" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.", "C.B. Neblette" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.", "C.B. Neblette" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.", "Cardinal Newman" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?", "Friedrich Nietzsche" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "No more fiction: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.", "Friedrich Nietzsche" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Knowledge rests on knowledge; what is new is meaningful because it departs slightly from what was known before.", "Robert Oppenheimer" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.", "Ovid" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.", "Louis Pasteur" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten percent.", "Norman Vincent Peale" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.", "Pablo Picasso" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Responsibility educates.", "Wendell Phillips" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The beginning is the most important part of the work.", "Plato" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Knowledge is the food of the soul.", "Plato" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("The knowledge at which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.", "Plato" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.", "Plato" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( ". . . a good education is another name for happiness.", "Ann Plato" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "An object in possession seldom contains the same charm that it had in pursuit.", "Pliny the Younger" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited", "Plutarch" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.", "Alexander Pope" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing — the rest is mere sheep-herding.", "Ezra Loomis Pound" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Professors complain about students who arrive at college with strong convictions but not enough knowledge to argue persuasively for their beliefs. ... Having opinions without knowledge is not of much value; not knowing the difference between them is a positive indicator of ignorance.", "Diane Ravitch" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.", "Carl Rogers" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Even if you're on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.", "Will Rogers" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.", "Eleanor Roosevelt")); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.", "Eleanor Roosevelt" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Knowledge — that is, education in its truest sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice, and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities or panic-stricken leaders.", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.", "Franklin D. Roosevelt") ); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Teachers should unmask themselves, admit into consciousness the idea that one does not need to know everything there is to know and one does not have to pretend to know everything there is to know.", "Esther P. Rothman" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all — by example", "John Ruskin " )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.", "Bertrand Russell")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education, considered as a process of forming our mental habits and our outlook on the world, is to be judged successful in proportion as its outcome approximates to this ideal; in proportion, that is to say, as it gives us a true view of our place in society, of the relation of the whole human society to its non-human environment, and of the nature of the non-human world as it is in itself apart from our own desires and interests.", "Bertrand Russell")); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.", "Bertrand Russell" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.", "Bertrand Russell" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?", "Bertrand Russell" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.", "Lucius A Seneca" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Wonder is the desire for knowledge.", "St. Thomas Aquinas" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.", "St. Augustine" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "“Goodbye,” said the fox.
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”", "Antoine de Saint Exupéry" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.", "Antoine de Saint Exupéry" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is such a secret place, the land of tears.", "Antoine de Saint Exupéry" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,
rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.", "Antoine de Saint Exupéry" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour
falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts;
They lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
is daily spun,
But there exists no loom
to weave it into fabric.", "Edna St. Vincent Millay" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.", "George Santayana " )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.", "Arthur Schopenhauer" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.", "Lucius A Seneca" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "...I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space...", "William Shakespeare" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.", "George Bernard Shaw" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Few people think more than two or three times a year.
I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.", "George Bernard Shaw" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Bid the long-prisoned mind attain
A sphere of dazzling day,
Bid her unpinion'd foot
The cliffs of knowledge climb,
And search for Wisdom's sacred root
That mocks the blight of time.", "Lydia Howard Sigourney" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.", "Isaac Bashevis Singer" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ", "Socrates" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.", "Socrates" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.", "Sophocles" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.", "Joseph Stalin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body", "Sir Richard Steele" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education — if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon — all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.", "Harriet Beecher Stowe" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today.", "Stacia Tausher" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.", "Alfred, Lord Tennyson" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "We can do no great thing, only small things with great love.", "Mother Teresa " )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The art of reading mathematical books is judicious skipping", "Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)" )) daQuotes.push( new Array( "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.", "Henry David Thoreau" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.", "Tolstoy" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up.", "Lily Tomlin" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides — there must be a bonding agent — someone who attaches child to book", "Jim Trelease" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.", "Harry S. Truman" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read.", "Mark Twain" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "It is easy to spot an informed man — his opinions are just like your own.", "Miguel de Unamuno" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The best way to know life is to love many things.", "Vincent Van Gogh" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.", "Voltaire" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.", "William Arthur Ward" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.", "George Washington" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.", "Daniel Webster" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.", "H.G. Wells" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.", "Orson Welles" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Teaching is the royal road to learning.", "Jessamyn West" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.", "E. B. White" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.", "Alfred North Whitehead" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.", "Alfred North Whitehead" )); daQuotes.push( new Array("It is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copybooks, and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.", "Alfred North Whitehead" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. This an art very difficult to impart. We must beware of what I will call “inert ideas” that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.", "Alfred North Whitehead" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son... ", "Thomas Wolfe" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.", "William Wordsworth" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "....only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.", "Mary Wollstonecraaft" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "The first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.", "Virginia Woolf" )); daQuotes.push ( new Array( "My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?", "Virginia Woolf" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", "Malcolm X" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.", "Malcolm X" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.", "Malcolm X" )); daQuotes.push( new Array( "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.", "William Yeats" ));