The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its…

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

— Maria Montessori

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

— William Hazlitt

The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the…

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

— Confucius

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition,…

— John Dewey

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution…

— John Dewey

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition…

— John Dewey

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

— John Bunyan

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's…

— Lilian Katz

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me;…

— Stephen Covey

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen…

— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

— James D. Watson

My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss…

— Maya Angelou