John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.
As quoted in American Heroes of Exploration and Flight (1996) by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) academic and Wikipedian
Wadewitz, Adrianne. (August 12, 2013). "What I learned as the worst student in the class" http://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/08/12/what-i-learned-worst-student-class. HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. — reprinted and cited in: "How Adrianne Wadewitz learnt to embrace failure" http://www.smh.com.au/world/how-adrianne-wadewitz-learnt-to-embrace-failure-20140425-zqzgx.html. The Sydney Morning Herald. April 25, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Source: " A Case of Voluntary Ignorance http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/2013/11/a-case-of-voluntary-ignorance-by-aldous-huxley/" in Collected Essays (1959)
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher
Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.
Psychology of World Views (1919)
Tanith Lee book Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
Book One, Part III “White Lynx”, Chapter 1 (p. 78)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
“Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
James Richardson (1950) American poet
#373
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)