"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
-- Ben Franklin

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."
-- Pascal

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-- Derek Bok (former president of Harvard)

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-- George Bernard Shaw