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 * Welcome to the Edquotes Wikispace. I asked my networks to share their favorite quotes. I've shared mine and included their's here. Please feel free to add your own.**

"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem."--Gordy Peterson Shared by[|@pwoessner]

"Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" -Alan Kay

"It's not what the software does it's what the user does" -[|hugh]

"The illiterate of the 21st century won't be those who can't read & write but those who can't learn unlearn & relearn" - Alvin Toffler Shared by [|@jepcke] and [|@rrodrigo] via Twitter

"History will say, “They had WHAT tools? And they did WHAT with them?” - John Davitt Shared by [|h011y] via Twitter

“The technology itself is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.” - Tanya Byron Shared by [|@h011y] via Twitter

"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us." Marshall McLuhan (1964) Shared by [|@craigr] via Twitter

"Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic." Arthur C. Clarke (1984) Shared by [|@craigr] via Twitter

"Fish don't know they live in water." Zen Saying Shared by [|@craigr] via Twitter

"Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'Y ou're not using today's tools! Wake up!'" -George Lucas Shared by [|@craigr] via Twitter

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" - Roy from ' The IT Crowd ' http://tinyurl.com/y75xbx Shared by [|@jarruzza] via Twitter

@cshirky 's "communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring" Shared by [|@ehelfant] via Twitter

“Indeed, the role I give the computer is that of a carrier of cultural 'germs' or 'seeds' whose intellectual products will not need technological support once they take root in an actively growing mind.” Seymour Papert Shared by [|@georgygrrl] via Twitter

"The B.E.S.T. conversations I have had with the people who know THE MOST about TECH has never been about TECH." ~Jen Wagner Shared by [|@jepcke] via Twitter

"Blogging is vandalism" - Alan Kay :-) Shared by [|@garystager] via Twitter

"We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language." - Jaron Lanier Shared by [|@edtechworkshop] via Twitter

"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? - William Gibson [|@Bmuench] via Plurk

"You must be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi [|@LoriB] via Plurk

"As your teacher, I'm a resource, not THE source." ~Ginger Lewman aka GingerTPLC

"If you don't love learning yourself, then please, do the students of the world a favor: don't teach." [Jason Ohler [|Then What?]]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what will never be."- Thomas Jefferson (ms.cortez@hotmail.com) "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.\" John Dewey “Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.” Madeline Hunter "Do not conﬁne your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.\" Chinese Proverb "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.\" Alvin Tofﬂer "There can be inﬁnite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if the teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.\" Nancy Kassebaum, U.S. Senator “Education is not the ﬁlling of a pail, but the lighting of a ﬁre.” William Butler Yeats "The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind–computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind--creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers--will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.\" Daniel Pink “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Percicles "It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well- trained teachers, leadership, and parental involvement.\" Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.\" Heidi-Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant "The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-ﬂy.\" Anthony Chivetta, high school student in Missouri The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done'. Jean Piaget “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut ﬂowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” John W. Gardner I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain “An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.” Anatole France The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. Herbert Spencer You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him ﬁnd it within himself. Galileo Galilei


 * “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.” **– Bill Gates