Nov 15, 2006

Verbatim on Education

...found these when working on grad cert in higher ed assignments:

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten (BF Skinner).

Education . . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading (GM Trevelyan).

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it (James Bryce).

I am returning this otherwise good essay to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top (An English professor, Ohio University).

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience (Author unknown).

I think the world is run 'C' students (Al McGuire).

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may be both wrong (Dandemis).

Plagiarism comes from a Latin word plagiarus - plunderer, from plagium - kidnapping.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent (Ralph Waldo Emerson).