Love is an abstract feeling which cannot be explained by anyone. Love means to sacrifice, to understand and to give respect. Love is the beautiful thing in the universe which makes our life colorful. Love is an essential part of life whether it is with GOD, parents, teachers or family and friends. To love someone is a natural tendency, infect it’s a relation between two or more persons while mutual understanding, respect and sincerity are the basics of true love.To love someone is not a bad or sinful act but sometimes the ways of love are wrong. In our modern materialistic society love simply means to give and take. Our young generation believes in sexual love. This sexual attraction once grows very strong apparently disappears. Fake love affairs cause vulgarity in any society. According to my survey report (mohabat krna bura nahe he) there are 70% people in our society who are the victim of sexual love, 20% don’t have time to fall in love. Only 10% make true love. Now-a-day true love rarely exists in our society because of its distorted conception.Excess of love distort the power of judgments. It’s impossible to love and be wise at the same time. Great and worthy people have not been known to fall in love to the extent of losing mental balance. Men of high spirit keep away from love, to them love is the result of follies. It’s wrong to say that lovers are sufficient into themselves and live happily by gazing upon each other. Men was created to contemplate divine mysteries and sublime objects not to worship the small idol of his love (Francis Bacon)Love is the passion which is the production of heart; it’s not the heart of life but only the part of life. True love was pure in past; it’s pure in present and will be pure in future. Do love its not a heinous crime but be in your limits.
Mohabat krna bura nahe he lekinMohabat k kuch mayar hoa krte hen
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Pencil
The humble graphite pencil might seem like the simplest of drawing tools, and so it is - but when you hit the art store, the range of graphite pencils available can come as something of a surprise. If you are just starting out, the low-cost, quick solution is to choose select a 6B, 4B, 2B, H and 2H from a reputable artist's range. A serious beginner might want to go for a full set in a tin, or try clutch pencils. Pencils are relatively inexpensive, so experiment to find what suits you best.Pencils have cores made from powdered graphite (not lead) fired with clay, varying in hardness. The type of graphite used in pencils is relatively soft and malleable, a little like lead, and was mistakenly thought to be a form of lead when first discovered. The misnomer stuck, and many people think that pencils once had lead cores, though they never did. Graphite leaves a small, smooth particle on the paper that has a slight sheen.Pencils can vary widely in quality. Irregularities in substandard or poorly processed graphite can lead to unpredictable tonal range, and even worse, scratches in the paper. Uncentered cores tend to break on sharpening. High quality artist's pencils deliver reliable, even tone at carefully graded hardnesses, and are less prone to breakage.
The familiar 'graylead' pencil has a graphite/clay core encased in cedar wood. These range in hardness from around 9b (very soft) up to 9H (very hard indeed) depending on the brand. Most artists starting out will find that a selection of 2H, HB, 2B, 4B and 6B is more than adequate to start with. If you are interested in doing extremely fine, realist tonal work, you might want to include all the pencils from 4H to 6B, or even buy a boxed set.Many artists swear by clutch pencils. Timber-cased pencils change their size, weight and balance as they are sharpened, which can be a problem for artists who draw a great deal. Clutch pencils have a constant weight and size and though initially expensive, the refills are competitive. I prefer the 2mm diameter leads - the .5mm ones break too easily.Progresso Pencils are thick graphite pencils with no wood casing but a layaer of laquer to facilitate clean handling. Useful for broad, expressive work and shading over incised detail or where a visible paper tooth is desired. Graphite sticks or crayons are chunky, crayon-like pencils suitable for large, vigorous work. They can be messy to handle but are great for tactile, involved mark making in large-scale works and life drawing.Powdered Graphite is a hands-on drawing medium, applied to the paper with fingers or a rag. It can be used in drawing for soft, loose mark making, or to prepare a toned drawing surface.Carbon pencils are made from lampblack (derived from burning oil), delivering a smooth, dark black line. Variations available include blends of carbon, charcoal and graphite. The particle size varies depending on the source, soot providing a fine even particle, charcoal often being rather coarse. Carbon and Compressed Charcoal pencils can be useful for obtaining a true black which is not really possible with graphite. Test for compatibility before applying to your drawing.Black conte pencils are made from a carbon and alumina chalk blend. These have a smoother, creamier consistency than pastel. Hard pastels are also available in a pencil format, and manufacturers are constantly experimenting with media. White pencils are either colored pencils or pastel pencils and are made of various combinations of pigment, chalk, clay, gum and wax. Other media pencils are not always compatible with graphite, and should be tried on a test piece first.
The familiar 'graylead' pencil has a graphite/clay core encased in cedar wood. These range in hardness from around 9b (very soft) up to 9H (very hard indeed) depending on the brand. Most artists starting out will find that a selection of 2H, HB, 2B, 4B and 6B is more than adequate to start with. If you are interested in doing extremely fine, realist tonal work, you might want to include all the pencils from 4H to 6B, or even buy a boxed set.Many artists swear by clutch pencils. Timber-cased pencils change their size, weight and balance as they are sharpened, which can be a problem for artists who draw a great deal. Clutch pencils have a constant weight and size and though initially expensive, the refills are competitive. I prefer the 2mm diameter leads - the .5mm ones break too easily.Progresso Pencils are thick graphite pencils with no wood casing but a layaer of laquer to facilitate clean handling. Useful for broad, expressive work and shading over incised detail or where a visible paper tooth is desired. Graphite sticks or crayons are chunky, crayon-like pencils suitable for large, vigorous work. They can be messy to handle but are great for tactile, involved mark making in large-scale works and life drawing.Powdered Graphite is a hands-on drawing medium, applied to the paper with fingers or a rag. It can be used in drawing for soft, loose mark making, or to prepare a toned drawing surface.Carbon pencils are made from lampblack (derived from burning oil), delivering a smooth, dark black line. Variations available include blends of carbon, charcoal and graphite. The particle size varies depending on the source, soot providing a fine even particle, charcoal often being rather coarse. Carbon and Compressed Charcoal pencils can be useful for obtaining a true black which is not really possible with graphite. Test for compatibility before applying to your drawing.Black conte pencils are made from a carbon and alumina chalk blend. These have a smoother, creamier consistency than pastel. Hard pastels are also available in a pencil format, and manufacturers are constantly experimenting with media. White pencils are either colored pencils or pastel pencils and are made of various combinations of pigment, chalk, clay, gum and wax. Other media pencils are not always compatible with graphite, and should be tried on a test piece first.
April Fool
The soul of April Fool's Day, a day for hoaxes and tricks lies in the funny pranks that are played on that day. The real good prank is the one that makes the victim laugh and enjoy as much as the other people who witness it. It's not nice to harm someone while pranking people and keep it safe. It is also necessary not to go overboard. However, small revengeful pranks that may be pardonable can be used to get back at someone who really deserves it.It is worth noting that many different cultures have had days of foolishness around the start of April, give or take a couple of weeks. The Romans had a festival named Hilaria on March 25, rejoicing in the resurrection of Attis. The Hindu calendar has Holi, and the Jewish calendar has PURIUM. Perhaps there's something about the time of year, with its turn from winter to spring, that lends itself to lighthearted celebrations.Traditionally in some countries, the jokes only last until noon: someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool". Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day.April fool's day sometimes called All Fools' Day, is one of the most light hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar.Here is the best April fool prank that is:Before one of your family members takes shower, remove the shower head and place a life-saver candy in it, replace the shower head with the candy now trapped in it. When the person takes a shower he or she will not notice, until they get out and start to dry off the towel will stick to them they will get back in the shower to rinse off... works like a charm.
INTERNET
Today is the age of digital revolution, age of “INTERNET”. The internet which is a vast global network of computers connecting people and information. Internet connects us worldwide. The world is as far as your hand from computer. You press on it and the world is opened for you just in the couple of seconds.People get anything they want through the wide usage of internet. Things are now easily available and getting inexpensive. Internet is source of better and competitive education, serves as shopping plaza where we get everything of our need, source of sending the important messages, serves as a library etc. In short usages as well as benefits of internet are unlimited. Every type of information can be easily accessed through internet. Internet saves money and time.Greeting cards have become priceless with the advent of E-cards. People are really mad about sending E-cards to their companions. Today your loved ones don’t have to wait for postman during the whole month just to get your few expressions of love and care for them. Now your letter and love card reaches just in fraction of minutes. Imagine the age when the pigeons were used to delivered letters and messages, were there anyone who could even dream of today’s age where messaging time is reduced to seconds?? But technology has made possible most of the impossibilities.Internet takes care of almost every occasion and every emotion of human beings. Just look the number of e-cards sites: 123greetings.com, EidMubarak.com, JustSayWow.com etc. millions of E-cards are lying there for every emotion ranging from love, friendship, ‘miss you’, ‘hate you’, and ‘get well soon’. Among occasions sites like eid-ul-fital cards, eid-ul-adha cards and not leaves even a single event of the year: New Year, Christmas, Father’s day, Mother’s Day etc. We can choose even the date and time of delivery of our card. This is the fastest way to express your feelings.Sometimes you feel like sending gifts, flowers, sweets and cakes to your family, friends on special occasion so internet is again there to serve us. Now we don’t have to spare our precious time to go to the market.It is said that letter is the half conversation (Adhi Mulakat) so is the E-mail. With the invasion of Messengers and Chat Rooms a new concept of conversation has emerged. Now our relatives or family members who live in foreign countries can easily talk to us through messengers and we can even see them by connecting with the video camera. A majority of people love reading books. Internet offers digital libraries and e-books in this regard. World’s knowledge is available on internet. Now we can quench the thirst of our knowledge by reading these e- books. Moreover music, films. Art, fashion, business, to cut a long story short, not a single aspect of life is untouched by the internet. Internet is a giant that is getting bigger and bigger at every moment. So it’s upon us to use this wonderful technology in a positive way that can help at each step of our life.
Economic way of thinking
IntroductionIn this topic we will discuss economics, the economic way of thinking, macro & micro economics. How it affects the markets and what is the role of government. One purpose of this topic is to describe the special approach in considerable detail---to develop in precise terms the commonly accepted principals of economic analysis, and to demonstrate how they can be used to understand a variety of problems, including pollution, unemployment, crime and ticket scalping.In economics in particular, education seems to be largely a matter of unlearning and “disteaching” rather than constructive action. A once famous American humorist observed that “it’s not ignorance so much damage; it’s knowing’ so darned much that isn’t so.”...It seems that the hardest things to learn and to teach are things that everyone already knows.EconomicsEconomics is the study of how people cope with scarcity ---with pressing problem of how to allocate their limited resources among their competing wants as to satisfy as many of those wants as possible.Scope of EconomicsPeople often associate economics with a rather narrow portion of the human experience: the pursuit of wealth; money and taxes; commercial and industrial life. And critics often suggest the economists are obvious to the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of human experience. Such criticism is not altogether unjustified. But increasingly, the economists are expanding their horizons and applying the laws of economics to the full spectrum of human activities.Positive and Normative EconomicsEconomic thinking is often divided into two categories, positive and normative. Positive economics is concerned with the world as it is rather than as it should be. It deals only with the consequences of the changes in the economic conditions or polices. A positive economist suspends questions of values when dealing with issues like crime or minimum wage laws. The object is to predict the effect of changes in criminal code or minimum wage rate---not to evaluate the fairness of such changes. Whereas normative economics deals with the value judgments---with what prices, production levels, incomes, and government policies ought to be. A normative economist does not shrink from the question of what the minimum wage rate ought to be. To arrive at an answer, the economist weighs the results of various minimum wage rates on the groups affected by them---the unemployed, employers, taxpayers and so on. Then, on the basis of value judgments of the relative need or merit of each group, the normative economist recommends a specific minimum wage rate. Of course, values differ from one person to the next. In the analytical jump from recognizing the alternatives to prescribe a solution, scientific thinking gives way to ethical judgment.Microeconomics and MacroeconomicsThe discipline of economics is divided into two main parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics.Microeconomiocs is the study of individual markets---for corn, records, books and so forth---that operate within the broad national economy. When economists measure, explain, and predict the demand for specific products like bicycle and hand calculators, they are dealing with microeconomics. Much of the work of the economist is concerned with the microeconomic analysis---that is with the interpretation of events in the marketplace and of personal choices among products.MacroeconomicsIt is the study of the national economy as a whole, or of its major components. Deals with the big picture not with the details, of the nation’s economic activity.Instead of concentrating on how many bicycles or hand calculators are sold, macroeconomists watch how many goods and services consumers purchase in total, or how much money all producers spend on new plant and equipment. Instead of tracking the price of a particular good in a particular market, macroeconomics monitors the general price level or average of all prices. And instead of focusing on the wage rate and the number of people employed as plumbers or engineers, macroeconomist study the income of all employees and the total number of people employed throughout the economyIn short the macroeconomics involves the study of national production, unemployment and inflation. For that reason this often referred to aggregate economics.Performance of Economic SystemEconomists are also interested in measuring, explaining and, predicting the performance of the economic system itself. To do so they study broad subdivisions of the economy, such as the total output of all firms that produce goods and servicesMajor ConclusionsEconomics is the discipline best described as the study of human interaction in context of scarcity. It is the study of how individually and collectively, people use their scarce resources to satisfy as many of their wants as possible. Economic method is founded in a set of presuppositions about human behavior, on the basis of which economist’s constructs theoretical models. Economic thinking is founded on the assumptions that people’s needs and wants are limitless, but resources, goods, and services are scarce. Thus people choose among the many things they want---they cannot have everything.Individaully or collectively, they must decide what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom to produce it. Resources are things useful in producing the goods and services people want. Economists divide resources into four categories:
Land
Labor
Capital
Technology
Land
Labor
Capital
Technology
Do Pakistani Movies Represent the Culture of Pakistan?
Have you ever watched a Pakistani movie? I know your answer. You will surely think of me a fool and give nasty expressions. You might doubt my taste of entertainment and movies. Most obviously, your answer will be an absolute “NO”.This radical disliking to these movies by we Pakistanis ourselves is positively due to the clear mismatch to our culture. Unfortunately, we like to watch Indian movies but Pakistani movies stand nowhere on our priority list. The lamp of Pakistani film industry is blowing out slowly and gradually because they do not have a market value.There had been glorious times and golden reigns when Pakistani films had a remarkably high viewer ship. People were greatly fond of the refined and superior quality of our movies and melodious music. But why all that is lost today? Does somebody can answer? The main reason behind this problem is that we have moved very far away from our own culture. It is human nature and psychology that one does not adapt to an environment; one is not fit into easily. As far as our movies communicated our own rites, rituals and customs, people were inclined to them. By now, when the adulteration of our culture is exhibited in the movies, people hesitate to put an eye upon these.Do these obscene views in the movie are present in our villages? Do the innocent girl of a town dances in the fields with indecent clothes? Does our culture, ranging back to centuries, gives any evidence of the vulgarity shown in our Punjabi movies? Do the names of such movies, which we feel ashamed to hear, relate to our moral values? No. That is the reason why we are not inclined to watch these movies which do not fit our norms.Here the question arises that if we don’t want to watch these Pakistani movies, then why we waste our three to four hours to watch Indian movies, although many of these movies also depict obscenity and indecency? Our minds have accepted that it is Indian culture being shown in those movies and it is appropriate for them to promote it. We consider it correct and right. There is nothing wrong in it to depict one’s own culture. The purpose is not to criticize Indian movies but to think why Pakistani movies are lagging behind rendering a loss to film industry and our economy.Another problematic issue is that, our film-makers are becoming copy-cats. They are trying to make their films similar to that of the Indian ones to increase the viewer ship as they think that people like those more. While trying to do so, they neglect the requirements and demands of our own culture, and there is no positive result. The situation remains as it was before. People still don’t want to go to cinemas for healthy recreation nor do they want to watch these movies with their families.Pakistani movies’ names are enough to take the viewer away from the cinema hall. What do you think that the names like “Wehshi Ghunda”, “Shikaari Haseena”, “Gujjar Da Kharaak” etc. can convey to people? Do these names can have any attraction or source of a healthy entertainment? Can these names bring fame and pride to our film industry? Rather some of these names are so indecent and shameful to be mentioned here or to be listened. This is a point where we have to think and take progressive steps to lead towards prosperity. Our own productions must be as strong and effective to bring repute and splendor to our film industry and country. “Khuda Kay Liye” has proved to be a great breakthrough. Such efforts can positively make a difference.One cannot be successful by cutting of one’s roots. Our roots lie in our traditions, customs, rites, norms and most of all our religion. We must depict our traditions and civilization in our movies or any other media, so as to provide knowledge of our traditions to our generations. Our culture is our identity. No individual or nation can be successful in any field of life, if it neglects or cuts off itself from its roots. So is applicable for the film industry. We must stick on to our own culture and devise our paths ourselves to move forward towards success. Nothing can be attained by begging for a ray of light from somebody else’s lamp, so why not light one’s own lamp using the oil of hard work, devotion and consistency? Think.....
Web Based GIS for Fresh Water Supply System
Introduction
Pakistan is one of the developing countries of South Asia. Amongst various problems faced by the developing countries, one of the major challenges is fresh water availability to its inhabitants. Government of Pakistan is paying full attention towards this problem because many more issues are associated with proper supply of water and drainage system. Few of them are the gradual decrease in ground water level, purification of drinking water, proper allocation of resources to system with increase in population, installation of properly planned drainage system in congested areas as well as for the new schemes.
To identify the causes of water related diseases a properly managed water supply and drainage management information system is the basic requirement of this era. The information generated by such information system will be more useful in analysis and planning if GIS is involved. The use of GIS will facilitate the users of the system to identify spatially referenced features on the ground, perform analysis, infer and make appropriate actions on time.
A Spatial Database is required to store the spatially referenced data and to keep log of allocated resources as well as the information about the required financial and technical resources for planning extensions.
To keep in mind these things that describe above we have developed web based GIS for fresh water supply system of UC-60 Lahore.
Study Area
Our study area is UC-60 Lahore. Union Council 60 is a poor peri urban community located in Aziz Bhatti Town near Rangers Headquarters Lahore.
Location
31Degree 33 minute 05 Second North and 74 Degree 24 minute 56 Second East.
Present Status of Water and Sanitation in UC-60 Lahore
They have no access to government water supply and sanitation schemes. Poverty, illiteracy and absence of any health and hygiene program have resulted in poor community health. 37 to 42% adults and children were sick in last three month from water and sanitation diseases.
Poor health of the Inhabitants
The initial field survey revealed that people in the area do not have any water supply and sanitation system.Anecdotal evidence from the discussion with communities suggests  that elders and children health is affected as the sewage water is  mixed with the drinking water.The existing water supply is through instillation of small motor pumps to extract ground water.
Disease Profile of the Area
Extremely low literacy rate, poor hygienic knowledge about the safe storage of water has impacted the community health. It is reported that in children Gastro is mostly reported diseases followed by Diarrhea and Jaundice
Knowledge about quality and storage of water
The respondents were aware about the importance of the quality of water based on the indicators of taste, color and smell.
58% were not satisfied with the quality of water based on the indicators.
However, there un-satisfaction was not translated into concrete positive health behavior
Project Goal
Development of Web based GIS system for the spread of Fresh Water, while making the system sustainable and research oriented through management of resources applied and impact assessment tools and techniques.
METHODOLOGY
Requirements Gathering Phase
Meter Quick Bird Satellite Image (Area of concern)0.6 meter Quick Bird Satellite Image (Area of concern)
Thematic Map (Area of concern)This map has followings information:
Primary Feeder information
Secondary Feeder Information
Distribution Mains Information
Valves Information
Database Design PhaseDatabase design is the process of producing a detailed data model of a database. this logical data model contains all the needed logical and physical design choices and physical storage parameters needed to generate a design in a Data Definition Language, which can then be used to create a database. A fully attributed data model contains detailed attributes for each entity.
ProcessesGeoreferenceTo georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. That is, establishing a relation between raster or vector images to map projections or coordinate systems. This procedure is thus imperative to data modeling in the field of geographic information systems (GIS) and other cartographic methods. When data from different sources need to be combined and then used in a GIS application, it becomes essential to have a common referencing system. This is brought about by using various georeferencing techniques.
Spatial Data on Web
Mapguide Open SourceMapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure. MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards.
FusionFusion is part of Map Guide. Fusion handles the user interface between the client and Map Guide. Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide Open Source (MGOS). Fusion allows web designers and developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily.Using &ldquowidgets” that provide the interface functionality within Fusion&rsquos modular architecture developers are able to add, remove, or modify functionality using standard-compliant HTML and CSS. Fusion requires no proprietary browser plug-ins, and it produces applications that work in all major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Fusion provides a flexible means of interacting with Map Guide Open Source (MGOS). Using a growing suite of widgets, this modular-based system allows us to build powerful, interactive AJAX applications quickly with minimal programming experience. For applications requiring special functionality, Fusion provides an extensible platform that allows we to develop own widgets.
Conclusion
Water Supply can use GIS in conjunction with the source water assessments to help protect the various water supply system. With an adequate database, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can serve as a powerful analytic and decision-making tool for water supply system. Furthermore, it can also be used for management and to test consequences of development.
Pakistan is one of the developing countries of South Asia. Amongst various problems faced by the developing countries, one of the major challenges is fresh water availability to its inhabitants. Government of Pakistan is paying full attention towards this problem because many more issues are associated with proper supply of water and drainage system. Few of them are the gradual decrease in ground water level, purification of drinking water, proper allocation of resources to system with increase in population, installation of properly planned drainage system in congested areas as well as for the new schemes.
To identify the causes of water related diseases a properly managed water supply and drainage management information system is the basic requirement of this era. The information generated by such information system will be more useful in analysis and planning if GIS is involved. The use of GIS will facilitate the users of the system to identify spatially referenced features on the ground, perform analysis, infer and make appropriate actions on time.
A Spatial Database is required to store the spatially referenced data and to keep log of allocated resources as well as the information about the required financial and technical resources for planning extensions.
To keep in mind these things that describe above we have developed web based GIS for fresh water supply system of UC-60 Lahore.
Study Area
Our study area is UC-60 Lahore. Union Council 60 is a poor peri urban community located in Aziz Bhatti Town near Rangers Headquarters Lahore.
Location
31Degree 33 minute 05 Second North and 74 Degree 24 minute 56 Second East.
Present Status of Water and Sanitation in UC-60 Lahore
They have no access to government water supply and sanitation schemes. Poverty, illiteracy and absence of any health and hygiene program have resulted in poor community health. 37 to 42% adults and children were sick in last three month from water and sanitation diseases.
Poor health of the Inhabitants
The initial field survey revealed that people in the area do not have any water supply and sanitation system.Anecdotal evidence from the discussion with communities suggests  that elders and children health is affected as the sewage water is  mixed with the drinking water.The existing water supply is through instillation of small motor pumps to extract ground water.
Disease Profile of the Area
Extremely low literacy rate, poor hygienic knowledge about the safe storage of water has impacted the community health. It is reported that in children Gastro is mostly reported diseases followed by Diarrhea and Jaundice
Knowledge about quality and storage of water
The respondents were aware about the importance of the quality of water based on the indicators of taste, color and smell.
58% were not satisfied with the quality of water based on the indicators.
However, there un-satisfaction was not translated into concrete positive health behavior
Project Goal
Development of Web based GIS system for the spread of Fresh Water, while making the system sustainable and research oriented through management of resources applied and impact assessment tools and techniques.
METHODOLOGY
Requirements Gathering Phase
Meter Quick Bird Satellite Image (Area of concern)0.6 meter Quick Bird Satellite Image (Area of concern)
Thematic Map (Area of concern)This map has followings information:
Primary Feeder information
Secondary Feeder Information
Distribution Mains Information
Valves Information
Database Design PhaseDatabase design is the process of producing a detailed data model of a database. this logical data model contains all the needed logical and physical design choices and physical storage parameters needed to generate a design in a Data Definition Language, which can then be used to create a database. A fully attributed data model contains detailed attributes for each entity.
ProcessesGeoreferenceTo georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. That is, establishing a relation between raster or vector images to map projections or coordinate systems. This procedure is thus imperative to data modeling in the field of geographic information systems (GIS) and other cartographic methods. When data from different sources need to be combined and then used in a GIS application, it becomes essential to have a common referencing system. This is brought about by using various georeferencing techniques.
Spatial Data on Web
Mapguide Open SourceMapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure. MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards.
FusionFusion is part of Map Guide. Fusion handles the user interface between the client and Map Guide. Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide Open Source (MGOS). Fusion allows web designers and developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily.Using &ldquowidgets” that provide the interface functionality within Fusion&rsquos modular architecture developers are able to add, remove, or modify functionality using standard-compliant HTML and CSS. Fusion requires no proprietary browser plug-ins, and it produces applications that work in all major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Fusion provides a flexible means of interacting with Map Guide Open Source (MGOS). Using a growing suite of widgets, this modular-based system allows us to build powerful, interactive AJAX applications quickly with minimal programming experience. For applications requiring special functionality, Fusion provides an extensible platform that allows we to develop own widgets.
Conclusion
Water Supply can use GIS in conjunction with the source water assessments to help protect the various water supply system. With an adequate database, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can serve as a powerful analytic and decision-making tool for water supply system. Furthermore, it can also be used for management and to test consequences of development.
Adult Education Articles
Articles on adult education for adult learners, teachers, and other educators. "Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This is often done in the workplace, or through 'extension' or 'continuing education' courses at secondary schools, or at a College or University. The practice is also often referred to as 'Training and Development'. It has also been referred to as andragogy (to distinguish it from pedagogy)." Source: Wikipedia.
1: Characteristics of Adult Learners
Adult learners are qualitatively different than younger learners. You certainly can “teach an old dog new tricks” by understanding the cognitive and social characteristics of adult learners. Using the right instructional strategies to maximize the learning advantages and address the learning challenges of adult learners can make all the difference in their success. Adult Learner Cognitive Characteristics 1. Generally speaking, most adult learners share the following characteristics:
by Patrick Hartell You have to deal with a number of issues if you have a learning disability, even if that disability was diagnosed in the childhood. The issues will be different and many more in adulthood than they were in your childhood years. Hence you will have to find new ways to cope with these challenges and issues posed by the learning disability. Most children plan on marrying, having children, and being a productive member of their society. If you have a learning disability,
by Rose Mary There are people who do not pursue college education during their early days. For those who do, some of them do not continue with graduate education immediately after completing their first degree. These people have several reasons for not pursuing their studies at that time. Firstly, they may lack the financial support for their study. Secondly, they may not be able to meet the entrance criteria set by the college. Thirdly, they may lack the interest to study. Fourthly, By Gabriel Rise It goes without saying that nowadays we are all confronted with an environment of continuous change and speedy shifts. Technology has altered the very nature of business and this had greatly influenced the employment market. Jobs requiring expertise and technical skills are growing in nearly every sector of the economy. The continuous change in what employees need to know and be able to handle suggests that learning, training and education will occur over the length of a car5: 5 Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language (2.00/5)
During the modern age, with globalization at its height, knowing one or two secondary languages has become more than a simple feat of high class and intelligence but also a strict requirement in many occasions. Whether it’s for professional, social or personal reasons, learning at least one foreign language is a must for anyone that wants to keep his or her head up high in today’s society. Let’s take a focused look on 5 of the main reasons that should turn you towards learning a foreign language6:
by Timothy D. Arnold Getting an online education is both a very thrilling proposition and a challenging one as well. It is quite exciting to learn through a very new and non-traditional form of education and it offers a set of new challenges that would compel individuals to really immerse themselves in what they are doing. Unfortunately, even with an educational format as new as online education, the same old problems that plague students would usually crop up. The most common difficulty
By Gary Stuart Approximately 90 million adults in the United States are now enrolled in some kind of training or educational program. Four out of every ten college students are over twenty-five years of age. Another 800,000 take the General Educational Development (GED) test every year to earn high school diplomas. Adult education and re-training is a big trend! Some of the pressure to get more education is coming from a job market that demands up-to-date skills, especially in technology.
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by Rose Mary There are people who do not pursue college education during their early days. For those who do, some of them do not continue with graduate education immediately after completing their first degree. These people have several reasons for not pursuing their studies at that time. Firstly, they may lack the financial support for their study. Secondly, they may not be able to meet the entrance criteria set by the college. Thirdly, they may lack the interest to study. Fourthly, By Gabriel Rise It goes without saying that nowadays we are all confronted with an environment of continuous change and speedy shifts. Technology has altered the very nature of business and this had greatly influenced the employment market. Jobs requiring expertise and technical skills are growing in nearly every sector of the economy. The continuous change in what employees need to know and be able to handle suggests that learning, training and education will occur over the length of a car5: 5 Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language (2.00/5)
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Generosity Quotes
Horace Mann:
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-->Jean Jacques Rousseau:
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-->John D. Rockefeller Jr.:
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
-->Maya Angelou :
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Pamela Glenconner:
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.
Peyton Conway March:
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson:
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
from "The Matchmaker"
-->Walt Whitman :
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
-->Winston Churchill:
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-->Jean Jacques Rousseau:
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-->John D. Rockefeller Jr.:
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
-->Maya Angelou :
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Pamela Glenconner:
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.
Peyton Conway March:
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson:
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
from "The Matchmaker"
-->Walt Whitman :
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
-->Winston Churchill:
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Wonder Quotes
Albert Einstein:
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Amy Bloom:
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Anais Nin:
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
-->Anais Nin:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Bill Cosby:
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
-->Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-->Emily Dickinson:
Before the ice is in the pools, Before the skaters go, Or any cheek at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow, Before the fields have finished,Before the Christmas tree, Wonder upon wonder Will arrive to me!
Maureen Hawkins:
Before you were conceived I wanted youBefore you were born I loved youBefore you were here an hour I would die for youThis is the miracle of life.
Monica Baldwin:
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
-->Rachel Carson:
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
-->Rachel Carson:
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
-->Rachel Carson:
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-->Ralph Sockman:
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Thich Nhat Hanh:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thomas Carlyle:
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Willa Cather:
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Dea
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Amy Bloom:
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Anais Nin:
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
-->Anais Nin:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Bill Cosby:
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
-->Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-->Emily Dickinson:
Before the ice is in the pools, Before the skaters go, Or any cheek at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow, Before the fields have finished,Before the Christmas tree, Wonder upon wonder Will arrive to me!
Maureen Hawkins:
Before you were conceived I wanted youBefore you were born I loved youBefore you were here an hour I would die for youThis is the miracle of life.
Monica Baldwin:
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
-->Rachel Carson:
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
-->Rachel Carson:
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
-->Rachel Carson:
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-->Ralph Sockman:
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Thich Nhat Hanh:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thomas Carlyle:
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Willa Cather:
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Dea
Confidence Quotes
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash
Marian Wright Edelman:
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
-->Robert Coles:
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
-->Sidonie Gruenberg:
To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
Virginia Woolf:
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-->Erik H. Erikson:
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Marian Wright Edelman:
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
-->Robert Coles:
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
-->Sidonie Gruenberg:
To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
Virginia Woolf:
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-->Erik H. Erikson:
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Education Quotes 2
Beverly Mickens:
Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.
Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Charlotte Bronte:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Clarence Darrow:
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
David Selby:
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Douglas Adams:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Edith Hamilton:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
Edith Hamilton:
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated.
Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus:
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Discourses
Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Finley Peter Dunne:
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Flannery O'Conner:
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.
When We Deal With Children
George Bernard Shaw:
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
George Santayana:
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
H. G. Wells:
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Hannah More:
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Helen Keller:
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Henry B. Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry David Thoreau:
I was determined to know beans. Walden
Henry Steele Commager:
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Ward Beecher:
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Ida B. Wells:
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
John Adams:
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Burroughs:
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Dewey:
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey:
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey:
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.
My Pedagogic Creed, 1897
John Dewey:
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey:
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John F. Kennedy:
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Lord Brougham:
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Lou Ann Walker:
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
Marc Estrin:
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Maria Mitchell:
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Montessori:
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Marian Wright Edelman:
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Mark Twain:
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
Mark Twain:
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
Mark Twain:
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
1908, notebook
Mark Twain - attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mary Pettibone Poole:
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Mortimer Adler:
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler:
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Nelson Mandela:
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Pablo Picasso:
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Patricia Neal:
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal:
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Paulo Freire:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Pete Seeger:
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Peter Senge:
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works ... images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models -- surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works -- promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
Rabbinical saying:
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rachel Carson:
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Robert Fulghum:
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor:
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Russell Baker:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Saint Francis de Sales:
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Samuel Gompers:
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Sidonie Gruenberg:
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
St. Francis Xavier:
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Susan B. Anthony:
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Theodore Parker:
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker -- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Jefferson:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thucydides:
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Unknown:
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
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Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Virgil:
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virginia Woolf:
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
Virginia Woolfe:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Will Durant:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
William Butler Yeats:
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William E. Gladstone :
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William Ellery Channing:
But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing:
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
William James:
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
Winston Churchill:
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.
Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Charlotte Bronte:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Clarence Darrow:
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
David Selby:
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Douglas Adams:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Edith Hamilton:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
Edith Hamilton:
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated.
Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus:
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Discourses
Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Finley Peter Dunne:
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Flannery O'Conner:
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.
When We Deal With Children
George Bernard Shaw:
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
George Santayana:
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
H. G. Wells:
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Hannah More:
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Helen Keller:
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Henry B. Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry David Thoreau:
I was determined to know beans. Walden
Henry Steele Commager:
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Ward Beecher:
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Ida B. Wells:
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
John Adams:
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Burroughs:
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Dewey:
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey:
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey:
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.
My Pedagogic Creed, 1897
John Dewey:
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey:
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John F. Kennedy:
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Lord Brougham:
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Lou Ann Walker:
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
Marc Estrin:
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Maria Mitchell:
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Montessori:
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Marian Wright Edelman:
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Mark Twain:
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
Mark Twain:
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
Mark Twain:
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
1908, notebook
Mark Twain - attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mary Pettibone Poole:
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Mortimer Adler:
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler:
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Nelson Mandela:
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Pablo Picasso:
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Patricia Neal:
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal:
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Paulo Freire:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Pete Seeger:
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Peter Senge:
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works ... images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models -- surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works -- promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
Rabbinical saying:
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rachel Carson:
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Robert Fulghum:
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor:
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Russell Baker:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Saint Francis de Sales:
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Samuel Gompers:
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Sidonie Gruenberg:
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
St. Francis Xavier:
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Susan B. Anthony:
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Theodore Parker:
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker -- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Jefferson:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thucydides:
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Unknown:
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
This entry continued ...
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Virgil:
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virginia Woolf:
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
Virginia Woolfe:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Will Durant:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
William Butler Yeats:
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William E. Gladstone :
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William Ellery Channing:
But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing:
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
William James:
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
Winston Churchill:
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Education Quotes
Albert Einstein:
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Alvin Toffler:
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Anatole France:
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France:
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Anna Garlin Spencer :
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Annie Sullivan:
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Arie de Gues:
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.
Ariel and Will Durant:
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Aristotle:
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Ben Sweetland:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Bertrand Russell:
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Education and the Social Order
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Alvin Toffler:
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Anatole France:
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France:
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Anna Garlin Spencer :
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Annie Sullivan:
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Arie de Gues:
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.
Ariel and Will Durant:
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Aristotle:
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Ben Sweetland:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Bertrand Russell:
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Education and the Social Order
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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