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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

"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

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted. Linda Conway

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "aparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. K. Patricia Cross