Verbatim

a commonplace blog of quotations about learning and learning design

Entries from February 2006

school’s out

February 16th, 2006 · Comments Off

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks
Alice Cooper, title song of School’s Out, 1972.

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Tags: bons mots · brave new world

education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten

February 16th, 2006 · Comments Off

It has often been remarked that an educated man has probably forgotten most of the facts he acquired in school and university. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten..
B. F. Skinner, [...]

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Tags: bons mots · learning design

the most difficult thing in the world

February 16th, 2006 · Comments Off

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wofgang von Goethe

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Tags: bons mots · the theory-practice gap