Quotes About Engagement

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

A true leader inspires by being among the people, not above them.

Suspense consumes your opponents, whereas mystery intrigues your followers.

You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).