I was reminded recently of a quote by John F Kennedy: "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other" As a leader and a trainer, you can see why I would appreciate this one! I fully believe that as a leader my job is not just to develop my team, but also to recognise the potential in them, leverage their existing talents, to encourage them to see themselves for who they are and give them the confidence they need to become the people that they can be. I also think that no matter how much we learn there is still infinitely more that we could learn, but also because when I train someone I want to inspire them to push the boundary of the subject, to learn more than I could ever teach them. Then I was reminded of another quote, this time by Socrates: Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel Since my post a few weeks back on Leadership Quotes, I have received a few requests for quotes on training, development and learning so here goes... Hope you find them as inspiring as I do! As usual, the presentation is available for download on my blog: http://wp.me/p37qal-nK

1. Training, Learning and
Development Quotes

2. Through
others we
become
ourselves

3. Everything can be explained to the people,
on the single condition that you want them to
understand

4. Man's mind, once
stretched by a new
idea, never regains
its original
dimensions

5. Development is
about transforming
the lives of people,
not just transforming
economies

6. Consistency
requires you to be
as ignorant today
as you were a year
ago

7. Feedback is the breakfast of
champions

8. Practice is the hardest part of
learning, and training is the essence
of transformation

9. The essence of training is to
allow error without
consequence

10. If you want to teach people a new way of
thinking, don't bother trying to teach them
Instead, give
them a tool,
the use of
which will
lead to new
ways of
thinking

11. In learning
you will teach,
and in
teaching you
will learn

12. The mediocre
teacher tells.
The good
teacher
explains. The
superior
teacher
demonstrates.
The great
teacher inspires

13. You cannot teach a
man anything, you can
only help him find it
within himself

14. True teachers are
those who use
themselves as
bridges over which
they invite their
students to cross;
then, having
facilitated their
crossing, joyfully
collapse,
encouraging
them to
create
their own

15. We never know which lives we
influence, or when, or why

16. We cannot hold a torch to
light another's path without
brightening our own

17. I'm not a teacher: only a
fellow traveller of whom you
asked the way. I pointed
ahead - ahead of myself as
well as you

18. Share your knowledge.
It is a way to achieve
immortality

19. Teachers have
three loves:
love of learning,
love of learners,
and the love of
bringing the first
two loves
together

20. But the purpose of a story is to teach and to
please at once, and what it teaches is how
to recognize the snares of the world

21. The best
way to
learn is
to do;
the
worst
way to
teach is
to talk

22. The more that you
read, the more
things you will know.
The more that you
learn, the more
places you'll go

23. Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever

24. Any fool can know
The point is to understand

25. Tell me and I forget, teach me
and I may remember, involve me
and I learn

26. Education is the
kindling of a flame, not
the filling of a vessel

27. Leadership and
learning are
indispensable
to each other

28. Wisdom is not a product of
schooling but of the lifelong
attempt to acquire it

29. A man, though
wise, should never
be ashamed of
learning more,
and must unbend
his mind

30. ...to learn and not to do is really not
to learn. To know and not to do is
really not to know

31. There are three kinds
of men. The ones
that learn by readin’.
The few who learn
by observation.
The rest of them
have to pee on the
electric fence for
themselves

32. Alesandra Blakeston
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