Cooperative Learning Quotes - Page 2

• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Player

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

  Maria Montessori

  Use, Lag, Development

  The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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• There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

  John Dewey

  Sake, Distinction, Mark

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• [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 that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Trying, Done, Way

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• 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 Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

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• I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Heart, Succeed, Cases

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• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Evening, Canvas

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

  William Hazlitt

  Cooperation, Opinion, Slave

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.276

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• Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Collaboration, Candid

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• Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

  Max Lerner

  Brother, Men, Diversity

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• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Thinking, Feelings, Desire

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin

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• It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.

  Kobe Bryant

  Responsibility, Player, Challenges

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

  John Bunyan

  Men, Mad, Charity

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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