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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. -- Alexander von Humboldt
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. -- M. Scott Peck
When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects -- Confucius
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? -- Maria Montessori
We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world. -- Melody Beattie
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. -- Lilian Katz
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. -- John Bunyan
Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others. -- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas. -- Linus Pauling
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work. -- Phil Jackson
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life -- John Dewey
It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses. -- Kobe Bryant
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference. -- Stephen Covey
Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner. -- Francis Crick
The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.' -- Wilbert J. McKeachie
True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society. -- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. -- Pablo Picasso
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all -- John Dewey
In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction. -- Lilian Katz
As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable. -- George Lucas

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