An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Robert Frost
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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E.m. Forster
Do not train a child to learn by force or 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.
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Plato
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Margaret Mead
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