X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=5acd12777bf1e8434d9b10fd3fc2c80d3722a3db;hb=88b7586c794d0bb783a9437327705cb74b169b67;hp=803624ed61f530c72a17bf69a7098001921c206e;hpb=efcf486416ea9b41fa12249fb957676cf0b2caaf;p=web%2Fgag.com diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 803624e..5acd127 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ On Life
"That which hinders your task is your task." +
+"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education
+other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things,
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -287,6 +296,12 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about Debian, Philosophy, and People
+
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+