Quotes on Educational Technology Summer 2009 

1.In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 

2. I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion. - Jack Canfield   

3. Involving students in discussion fosters retention of information, application of knowledge to new situations, and development of higher-order thinking skills -- and discussions do this much better than lectures do. ... Yet 70 to 90 percent of professors use the traditional lecture as their primary instructional strategy. - Lion F. Gardner

4. Teachers learn and use effective ways to integrate technology into their curriculum and use technology in ways that enhance instructional opportunities and successes for all students. - Gilbert Valdez

5. We already knew that kids learned computer tehnology more easily than adults. It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language. ~Jaron Lanier

6.   A child comes home from his first day at school. His Mother asks, "Well, what did you learn today?"     The kid replies, "Not enough. They want me to come back tomorrow. 

7. If there is one common thing all exceptional teachers share it's that they want to make a difference in the lives of their students, and they are willing to use whatever means necessary to make that impact. – Ron Clark

8. "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." - Edith Ann

9. COMMAND: A suggestion made to a computer.  -arkansasusa.com

10.  A Chinese proverb says, "Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."

11. "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." - John Dewey

12. "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event." - Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant

13. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown

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

15. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child. - Kathy Davis

16. They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel. - Author Unknown

17. Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

18. Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to

19. Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each..-Plato 

20. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. -John F. Kennedy

21. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristole

22. Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.  -  William Allin

23. Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.  -  Publilius Syrus

24. History is a race between education and catastrophe.  -  H. G. Wells

25. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  -  John Dewey

26. Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a  child is taught the alphabet? - William Gibson 

27. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

28.  We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. - Terrence McKenna

29.  Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. - Daniel Bell

30. Digital technology is opening artists up to worlds of beauty formerly invisible to 

the physical eye. Technological innovations are a means of making connections 

between art, science and technology. - Wendy Feldberg 

31. No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew. - Albert Einstein

32. It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership, and parental involvement.—Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN

33.  Some people would rather die than think. - Bertrand Russell

34. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.- Chinese Saying

35. Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist, critic.

36. "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers." - Edgar Howe