Lifetime Learner Gifts

'The trouble with education is everyone knows how to teach, but nobody knows how to learn.'

Medical School - 'I'd like to welcome you all to our intern program. I'm your instructor, Dr. Harold T. Johnson.'

"People don't realize I was a less than brilliant teacher before I became a brilliant teacher."

"I'm sending you back to elementary school so you can get your computer skills up."

"Thank you for 30 years of teaching service. Now you have 5 minutes to turn in your keys, I.D. card, empty your desk and be escorted out."

'And that one painted and forgot to close the curtains.'

Guillaume Bude

Eternal Student.

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

'X is unknown? Even to somebody with all your education?'

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

Water the hydrangeas twice a week and trim as needed. The bromeliad only needs to be high-fived on Saturday, but you can give it high and low fives anytime you have a spare moment. Just, whatever you do, don't give it a "too slow" or it will turn inward and begin shutting down.

School. Learning is a lifelong process. It's only the graduation ceremonies that end.

'I did it all from memory.'

'School of hard knocks.'

"I learned one thing today. Attitude trumps aptitude!"

"I might have to go to school forever because the more I know the more I know I don't know."

'At first it's just kindergarten, but then mission creep takes over and you're in college.'

Teacher has two boxes: "Book Smart" and "Street Smart"

"If animals can be cloned, why can't homework be cloned?"

Learning.

"If you do well in your first practicum, you can move on to teaching real children."

'Want to hear something scary? This is the third time this week I've gotten off the bus and still remember what I've learned.'

'I'm sorry Timmy, but if I keep going for help, you'll never learn to take care of yourself,'

'I wanted to ask you about life-experience credit.'

"Why do I need to go to school? If I want to know anything I just Google it."

"I wouldn't mind...But he's the teacher."

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

'There's one app we can't give you ... aptitude.'

'I need to learn a trade... so I know what kind of work I'm out of.'

"I'm doing all I can to make the little things count."

'If i had my life to live over again... I'd make the same mistakes sooner'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

History. The worst past is my dad says they're still making history!