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Oct. 18 2009 - 11:15 pm | 5 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

Education quotations of the week (10-19-09)

This week’s quotations revolve around the subject of knowledge:

Formal knowledge claims require epistemic warrants. (David N. Boote & Penny Beile, from an article in the academic journal Educational Researcher–volume 35, issue 9, page 32)

In reality, knowledge is a very dynamic universe—and what is most valuable is not the body of knowledge, but the leading edge of it. (Bill James, sports statistician, from an article in the Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2007)

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. (George Bernard Shaw)

 Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. (Baruch Spinoza)

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)


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