Memorable science quotes.

[wigglieverse]

How's this?

"Ut(i) iucundum sapere debet, sapiens sibi fortunam habet" -unknown (since wisdom is its own treasure, learning should be a joy)

[Michaelangelica]

Great Quote Thank you

BUT
How come we destroy this in schools?

[wigglieverse]

I can still remember a female teacher "Miss Imabitch" who decided that my attitude needed some adjusting and marched me down the hall. I can remember stuff like "I know what to do with you!", and "We'll see how smart you think you are!" , an so on. So she takes me into an earlier grade class and tells me: "You're staying here for a while, until..." etc. So I got "demoted" from the third to the second grade for being a "smartass kid".
Of course, I figured then that it was what happened when you spoke out of turn or whatever it was I did, but I never did figure out why the other teacher agreed with my "lesson". I guess maybe they both figured that smartass kids aren't good for the way things should be, or something.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by wigglieverse

I can still remember a female teacher "Miss Imabitch" who decided that my attitude needed some adjusting and marched me down the hall. I can remember stuff like "I know what to do with you!", and "We'll see how smart you think you are!" , an so on. So she takes me into an earlier grade class and tells me: "You're staying here for a while, until..." etc. So I got "demoted" from the third to the second grade for being a "smartass kid".
Of course, I figured then that it was what happened when you spoke out of turn or whatever it was I did, but I never did figure out why the other teacher agreed with my "lesson". I guess maybe they both figured that smartass kids aren't good for the way things should be, or something.

Some Childhood memories can be so powerful and yet we remember so little
When I was about 3-4 YO a boy at my pre-school soiled his pants.
The teacher's (sic) put him in a paper machae dress and he was humiliated in the playground.
I can still remember my anger and indignation that anyone could do this to a little kid. I wanted out from that day.
maybe its the reason I'm a member of Amnesty International now.
Strange that such a sense of injustice was so strong in one so young

The word "Education" is derived from the Latin educare "to lead out", "to lead forth" To draw out what is already there.
Teachers should facilitate the growth of the inner child, just as a gardener raises an oak tree from an acorn.

i had awonderful quote about this i used in areport 30 yers ago. i can't remember it. It was about education for tolerance of ambigity (by Michaels)
Anyway the web has thown up this nice one

The abilities characteristic of those engaged in scientific investigations include: reasoning, intellectual honesty, tolerance of ambiguity, appropriate skepticism, open-mindedness, and the ability to make logical conclusions based on current evidence

How teachers teach, rather than the "facts"(?) they teach, is the real lesson.

[wigglieverse]

Well, I think teaching itself is at least part of the problem where kids just don't learn stuff. I mean basic things like spelling or grammar, and what a pronoun or an adverb is and how it's used, stuff like that. When I went back to Uni after 7-8 yrs in the industry (working), I met this dude in a 3rd year course who asked me what the difference was berween a noun and a verb. I really didn't know what to tell the guy, I was completely stunned, for starters.

Also I can remember some teachers who instead of talking about anything much would fill the blackboard with writing about something (I really can't remember now) that we were supposed to be "learning" about history, maybe. The best way to learn anything is to try to teach it to someone else (I think that might be some kind of saying). Teaching isn't getting kids to copy notes off boards, it's telling and showing: demonstrating, something. Trying to make it real in their imagination.

“Igitur indici in mens parare, indici auscultatoris instruere, iuli argumenti virili parte”
(the best evidence for an argument is that in the mind of the listener).

[wigglieverse]

Personally I think Latin is a bit boring these days. But you can still go back to the source of a lot of English words because they came from the older language. So learning a bit about it means you have a better insight into other meanings the word had, and still does to some extent. But enough about Latin.

“the total number of people who understand relativistic time ...is still much smaller than the number ...who believe in horoscopes.” -Yuval Ne'eman

Now there's a pithy English one...