FYI -- Below are some of my favorite quotes on learning. I seem to recall that famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden said something about banning the word 'teaching' from the language & replacing it with 'learning', but I haven't been able to locate the quote. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. --Alexandre Dumas Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. --Plato I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. --George Santayana Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. --Confucius Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. --Confucius A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. --Plutarch Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. --Albert Einstein Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. --Malcom S. Forbes 'Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail'. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Some of us are just less damaged than others.' (by schooling) --Buckminster Fuller 'We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.' --Plato 'Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.' --Jonas Salk 'Remember a dead fish can float downstream but it takes a live one to swim upstream'. --W C Fields 'Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves'. --Piaget 'I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.' --Jay Forrestor Prof MIT 'What we want to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.' --G B Shaw 'I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.' --Winston Churchill 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' --Albert Einstein