"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
                                                  B.F.Skinner,
                                                  "Education in 1984,"
                                                  New Scientist, 484, 21 May 1964

"It has often been said that a person does not really understand something until he teaches it to someone else. Actually a person does not really understand something until he can teach it to a computer"
                                                  Donald E. Knuth,
                                                  "Computer Science and Its Relation to Mathematics,"
                                                  American Mathematical Monthly, 81, 1974

"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try."
                                                  Sophocles,
                                                  The Women of Trachis

"In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence."
                                               -- Steven Wright


Modified on 25 Mar 99