Verbatim » bons mots http://shanta.edublogs.org a commonplace blog of quotations about learning and learning design Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 innovation http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/12/innovation/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/12/innovation/#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 03:19:38 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/12/innovation/ Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.

attributed to Albert Einstein

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/12/innovation/feed/ 0 standing on the shoulders of giants http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/71/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/71/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:52:39 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/71/ If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Sir Isaac Newton

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.

Hal Abelson, although according to Wikipedia, he attributes it to his Princeton roommate, Jeff Goll

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/71/feed/ 0 school’s out http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:48:31 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/ No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks

Alice Cooper, title song of School’s Out, 1972.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/feed/ 0 education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/education-is-what-survives-when-what-has-been-learned-has-been-forgotten/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/education-is-what-survives-when-what-has-been-learned-has-been-forgotten/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:36:02 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/education-is-what-survives-when-what-has-been-learned-has-been-forgotten/ 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, New Scientist, May 31, 1964, p. 484.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/education-is-what-survives-when-what-has-been-learned-has-been-forgotten/feed/ 0 the most difficult thing in the world http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:12:23 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world/ 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

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world/feed/ 0 the art of prophesy http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:18:58 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/ The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Often misattributed to Mark Twain.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/feed/ 0 intentions http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/12/30/45/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/12/30/45/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:22:26 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/12/31/45/ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/12/30/45/feed/ 0 thinking makes it so http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/thinking-makes-it-so/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/thinking-makes-it-so/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:08:04 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/thinking-makes-it-so/ Why, then ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Sc. II; Hamlet’s response to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who question Hamlet’s regard of Denmark as a prison – “We think not so, my lord.” The originator of the postmodern pragmatic viewpoint?

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