Peer Learning Quotes

#1. The maker movement is mostly about building things (whether low-tech or high-tech), as well as creating art and music. But it's driven by project-based, peer-to-peer learning, which tends to happen as novice "makers

Warren Berger

#2. The only great spirit of our time.

Simone Weil

#3. According to studies of writing quality, a varied vocabulary and the use of unusual words are two of the features that distinguish sprightly prose from mush.

Steven Pinker

#4. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.

Kami Garcia

#5. The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

Ashwin Sanghi

#6. Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

John Piper

#7. In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Dick Morris

#8. You expected me to find a trustworthy forger?

Douglas Hulick

#9. I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that's that.

Kevin Federline

#10. Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Nicholas Negroponte

#11. A hero worn out by his struggle, one who had sacrificed his youth - that was how he might present himself, not without effect. And it was true, in a way. He was physically brave, he had ideals, he was born a peasant and knew what it was to be despised. And she too, just now, had been despising him.

Alice Munro

#12. I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. You should really be careful," Johnny added before mouthing "bitch."
Oh, this was going to be a long fucking day.

R.L. Mathewson

#14. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.

Sam Starbuck

#15. The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Alan Watts

#16. Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students.

Lester Joseph Foltos

#17. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.

Laura Lipton

#18. Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Joe Torre

#19. Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

Sugata Mitra