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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Don’t waste time grieving over past mistakes. Learn from them and move on. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Each failure can lead to greater competence when it becomes a basis for learning. — Robert Fritz”
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“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living to the dead. — Aristotle, 384322 BC”
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“Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer (18201903), Social Statics, II, 17”
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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant”
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“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. — Erich Fromm”
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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1743], December”
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley”
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“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. — Eric Hoffer”
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“For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. — Daniel Anderson”
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“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. — Cicero”
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“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain”
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“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra”
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“If enough educated people insist on making a mistake, then it isn’t a mistake anymore and the teachers might as well stop wasting their time correcting it. — Rudolph Flesch”
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“If the self were so simple that we could understand it, we’d be so simple that we couldn’t. — Thomas Armstrong”
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“If there be any thing in my style or thoughts to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures. — Daniel Webster”
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“If you can’t say what you mean, you probably don’t know what you mean. — Thomas Harris”
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“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there. You need to decide what you want to accomplish and plan your training accordingly. — Steven Ungerleider”
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“If you want to know what kids aren’t learning, all you have to do is notice what they aren’t watching. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. — Tryon Edwards”
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“Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star. — Confucius”
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“In our busy, fast-paced world, genuine listening is rare. Most of the time we listen in a way you could describe as listening in order to in order to what? In order to get to the end of their sentence so I can make my point. — Bob Burg”
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“In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, and not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. — George F. Will”
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“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds. — Louis Pasteur”
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“In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. — John Quincy Adams”
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“Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. — John Ciardi”
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“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. — Jonas Salk”
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“Involvement is one of the most important keys to how well you can master any skill and ability. — Robert Fritz”
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“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. — Josh Billings (18181885), Proverb [1874]”
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“It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise you know only that which everyone else knows. — Henry L. Doherty”
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“Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it. — Jesse L. Greenstein”
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“Learners develop an ability to grow beyond their present abilities. — Robert Fritz”
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“Learning is not finding out what other people already know, but is solving our own problems for our own purposes, by questioning, thinking and testing until the solution is a new part of our lives. — Charles Handy”
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“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard”
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“Men willingly believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar”
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“Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. — Thomas R. Dewar”
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“Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson”
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“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it. — Clarence B. Kelland”
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“Ninety-nine percent of what looks like listening in the world is not genuine listening, it’s just waiting at a stoplight with the mind’s engine running until the light turns green and we can go again. — Bob Burg”
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