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We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
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We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
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This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

Stephen Downes Computer Researcher

E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

Stephen Downes Computer Researcher

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

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The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.

Amartya Sen Economist

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

Ann Patchett Author

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Aristotle Philosopher

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

Bernard Marcus Entrepreneur

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

Bertrand Russell Philosopher

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.

Blake Mycoskie Entrepreneur

Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside.

Chip R. Bell

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