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Student Pilot Answers Questions

Make sure that you're absolutely clear in your teaching. A student pilot was on his first solo flight. When he called in for instructions, the control tower said, ?Would you please give us your altitude and position?? The pilot responded, ?I?m 5 feet 10 inches, and I?m sitting up front.?

Object of Education

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins

Youth Know a Lot

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

One Year Experience

A man asked his boss why three other people were promoted past him. He said, ?Boss, I have twenty years experience in this job.? The boss replied, ?No, you don?t have twenty years of experience. You have one year of experience twenty times. You?ve been making the same mistake since you first started.? It doesn't matter how many years you've been teaching students if you haven't been learning from your experience all those years.

Learning From What God Has Taught

"It seems odd that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves should think so little of what He has revealed to others." (Charles H. Spurgeon, found in Cyril J. Barber, A Minister's Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baker Book House, 1974, p. xi.)

Learning From What God Has Taught

"It seems odd that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves should think so little of what He has revealed to others." (Charles H. Spurgeon, found in Cyril J. Barber, A Minister's Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baker Book House, 1974, p. xi.)

Explain Your Ideas

Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, says this about putting ideas simply: ?There?s something about smart people explaining ideas to an orangutan that makes their decision-making better.? (quoted in Fortune on October 26, 1987)

Don't Go Too Long

Many messages lose their impact by going too long. It is said that Mark Twain was very impressed with the religious zeal of a missionary that he heard speak. He made up his mind to contribute five dollars to the missionary when the plate was passed. But the missionary kept speaking and speaking. By the time he quit, Twain was so mad that he withheld his five dollars and took out a dime instead!

Churchill Using Notes

Great speaker Winston Churchill was once asked why he carried notes to a speech but seldom looked at them. He replied, ?I carry fire insurance, but I don?t expect my house to burn down.?

What We Remember

?Trainees learn only 16 percent of what they read; 20 percent of wht they see; 30 percent of what they are told; 50 percent of what they see and are told and 70 percent of what they see, are told and respond to; and 90 percent of what they do. Joe L. Whitley

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