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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeates
My claim here is that understanding ensemble [groups of objects that interact] behavior is an indispensable part of being educated. And there is a further claim, rather a large and sweeping one: Students should build working models whenever they can. When you can see and feel directly, immediately how each part works and how they all come together, you've achieved something important.
David Gelernter (1992) Mirror Worlds, page 100.
All learning begins with the simple phrase, "I don't know".
I don't know.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce Dubliners
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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