Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I remember,
involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
Let your home
be a meeting place
for sages.
– Pirkei Avot 1:4
Ask a question
and you’re a fool for three minutes –
don’t ask a question
and you’re a fool all your life.
– Chinese proverb
A shy person
cannot learn.
– Pirkei Avot, 2:6
Children are like wet cement:
whatever falls on them
makes an impression.
– Dr. Chaim Ginott,
Israeli early-education pioneer
It’s not that I’m so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems
longer.
– Albert Einstein
Rabbi Hillel says …
do not say
‘When I am free I will study’,
for perhaps you will not become free.
– Pirkei Avot 2:6
Perfect is the enemy of good.
– Voltaire
It’s the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
– Aristotle
Ben Zoma says:
Who is wise?
He who learns from every person.
– Pirkei Avot 4:1