Preface To The first edition, p. ix
The Political Economy Of Growth (1957)
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
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Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

From the first Cosmos: ASO episode, Standing Up in the Milky Way.
2010s, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Variant: Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Source: Psychology of management, 1914, p. 1-2

“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”
Wired interview http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/stewart.html?pg=2&topic=stewart&topic_set=, September 13, 2005
Context: The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.
“You're an interesting woman."
"Your interest has been duly noted.”
Source: Magic Burns

Making Notes
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

Source: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 75