The document contains quotes from various individuals about education and the role of teachers. Key themes that emerge are: the importance of teaching students how to learn, unlearn, and relearn in a changing world; the need for teachers to seamlessly integrate new technologies into the curriculum instead of as an add-on; and that the purpose of education is to empower students to think creatively and solve problems, not just repeat what previous generations have done.

1. "If we teach today as
we taught yesterday,
we rob our children
of tomorrow."
John Dewey

2. “Any growth requires
a temporary loss of
security.”
Madeline Hunter

3. "Do not confine your
children to your own
learning, for they were
born in another time."
Chinese Proverb

4. "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

5. "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

6. “Education is not the filling of
a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats

7. "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

8. “The whole purpose of
education is to turn
mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris

9. What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of
others.
Percicles

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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

13. 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

14. “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

15. I have never let my
schooling interfere
with my education.
Mark Twain

16. “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

17. The great aim of education
is not knowledge, but action.
Herbert Spencer

18. You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help
him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei

19. “Any teacher that can be
replaced by a computer,
deserves to be.”
David Thornburg