Knowledge Quotes - Page 76

Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.

For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered.In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck.Let’s try to break the problem down a bit. The education system […] is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called 'gifted' are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students.This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not.The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the world’s intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance – and we’re not necessarily talking just about IQ – the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits.

Christopher Langan

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

A satisfied customer brings more customers.

A team is more than the sum of the individuals.

A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.

Investor confidence rests on leaders who deliver.

Some leaders lead from the front.

Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.

Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.

Make sure a conflict exists before working to resolve it.

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

Words motivate.

Conflicts are expensive.

Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers.

Recognition motivates.

Conflicts have small beginnings.

A positive change in approach improves quality.

The quality of the product is inseparable from the quality of its parts.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

Quality solves the trade-off between margins and sales.

Work always makes a difference.

Growth-oriented performance demands sustained entrepreneurial efforts.

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success.

How one treats another one, determines success.

Sometimes a problem itself offers its own solution.

A clear mind achieves success.

Some problems are imaginary and not real.

With a common ground, solution of problems is easy.

Leaders prioritize what they want.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

Addressing the interests of the audience, results in effective communication.

Anger creates distances that shouting increases.

The wise communicate in subtle ways.

For further communication, previous communication may be archived or discarded.

Even if all communication from everyone is followed, yet one cannot please everyone.

Actions undertaken in anger, only result in pain, sorrow, and regret.

Mutual respect is an integral part of communication.

Workers can offer guidance for improving the work.

Improvement combines effectiveness with simplicity.

Even a child can offer ideas for improvement.

Leaders rule hearts, not people.

Angry issues need settling time.

Perseverance guarantees success.

Strategy is influenced by circumstances.

Knowledge is something that fire cannot burn, water cannot wet, air cannot dry, thieves cannot steal, and the more you spend the more it increases.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Experience is costly knowledge.

Only time can reveal the future.

Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle.

The winning strategy is the one that successfully adapts to the changing circumstances of time, place, and person.

Change is possible only if the top management agrees.

Entrepreneurs utilize even a negative change positively.

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