Quotes on quality of education

Thoughts

• Quality improvement is not just an institutional assignment; it is a daily personal priority obligation. (Bob Galvin, Motorola)

TEACHER - quotes

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The Great Teacher inspires.   (William Arthur Ward)

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.   (Jackues Barzun)

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on old iron.   (Horace Mann)

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for the months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.   (Donal D. Quinn)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.   (Henry Brooks Adams)

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to one spirit that quickens him. He will have no discipline.   (Amos Bronson Alcot)

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.   (Karl Menninger)

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.   (Author unknown)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.   (Galileo)

We teach what we need to learn.   (Gloria Steinen)

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say: The children are now working as if I did not exist.   (Maria Montessori)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.   (Malcolm Forbes)

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.   (Ignacio Estrada)

INSPIRATION - links and quotes

INSPIRATION

Quotes:

• Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK - it's not the end. 

Links:

• http://www.marcandangel.com/category/inspiration/

PRODUCTIVE LIVING - links

PRODUCTIVE LIVING

• 75 Ways to Stay Unhappy Forever: http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/29/75-ways-to-stay-unhappy-forever/
• 25 įpročiai, kurių verta atsisakyti: http://psichika.eu/blog/25-iprociai-kuriu-verta-atsisakyti/

links

MANAGEMENT

• Marketing Study Resources (Tutor2You) http://www.tutor2u.net/marketing/default.html

SELF-DIRECTION - links

  self direction 

• Techniques, Tooks and Resources For The Self-Directed Learner: http://www-distance.syr.edu/sdltools.html
• Self-Directed Learners: http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/SSDL/Model.html
  
• Thinking Managers (Management Library): http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/business-management
• The Recipe for a Happy Life: Follow Your Preferences and Give Live on Your Own Terms: http://www.pricelessprofessional.com/recipe-for-a-happy-life-2.html

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIONS

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. --ALBERT CAMUS

Links on Creativity and Innovations

• 20 Creative Thinking Techniques: http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2009/01/28/20-creative-thinking-techniques/
• Thinking Methods: http://www.ideaconnection.com/thinking-methods/creative-problem-solving-00009.html
• The Creative Toolbox: http://creatingminds.org/index.htm
• Creativity & Innovation (Monthly Mentor)http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles1_50.html
• Creativity Techniques: http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques
• Models of Innovation: http://www.unc.edu/~gdhughes/O_P_I_T.HTM

Thoughts

• išmokti kažką nauja..  <...> išvada tokia: jei jus kažkas kažko moko, vadinasi, tai jau yra išbandyta, tai reiškia, tai užrašyta vadovėliuose ir taip jau daro daugelis. Vadinasi, tai nėra nauja. Tai gali būti nauja tik Jums, kaip asmenybei, bet nebus nauja visuomenei ir pasauliui. Jei Jūs imsite taikyti tai, ko Jus išmokė, jūs imsite taikyti yai, ką taiko dauguma, ir rezultatą gausite tokį, kokį gauna dauguma - vidutinį. Vienas iš lengviausių būdų pasiekti sėkmės ir savirealizacijos aukštumų - pradėti daryti kažką kitaip nei tai daro visi. Norint būti kitokiu, dažnai trukdo įsisavinti standartai, jie sukelia abejones ir nesėkmės baimę. Sugalvoję kažką nauja ar neįprasta dažnai išgirstame: tu ką? kvailas? juk taip niekas nedaro! (komentaras delfi.lt 2011.09.24) 
• Geriau turėti daug idėjų ir kelias iš jų klaidingas, negu būti teisiam ir apskritai neturėti idėjų. (E. de Bono)
• Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find preciously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelaed phenomena. (Roger von Oech)
• Creativity in allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art of knowing which ones to keep. (Scott Adams)
• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. (Steve Jobs)
• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. (Emile Chartier)
• A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown by the cold winds of rigid management. (Richard Kinder)
• The creative process does not end with an idea - it only starts with an idea. (John Arnold)
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (George S. Patlon) 
• These days the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist. (Douglas Engelbart)
• The creative adult is the child who survived.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
• The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. (John Maynard Keynes)