To keep audience focus and attention during a presentation, do a "prize" give-a way every 20 minutes or so. Ask a review question on a pertinent point you recently made, first person with the correct answer gets the prize!

Your knowledge is a tool not a weapon...use it as a lever not a cane.

We become the best teacher by exposing what we most need to learn.

All of us have something to learn.
All of us have something to teach.

We are all part of a learning experience; we are all resources to others.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

At the end of each day, the average person can remember:
11% of what they heard that day
30% of what they saw
50% of what they heard and saw
90% of what they did
Adults learn best by doing.

Use QUESTIONS as an effective teaching aid: Can you imagine trying to improve your target shooting if you don't look at the target to see the results of each shot? Questions help you to see how well you are hitting the target.

Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll understand.
- old Chinese Proverb (Probably derived from the following Confucius quote)

I hear and I think. I see and I remember. I do and I know.
- Confucius

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George S. Patton

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcom S. Forbes

Learning is the ultimate freedom.

Good Opening Exercise at beginning of a class: have 1/2 of class form a line on each side of room- place hands on person's shoulders in front- massage- turn around, massage person behind you (demonstrates "experiential" learning and effective communications "little higher", etc.!!)

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker (5-89)

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for today. Teach a man how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime.

People learn best, not by being told, but by experiencing the consequences of their thoughts and actions.

An instructor should be an elicitor of relevant responses.

An instructor should not underestimate the value of up-front "disclaimers" before starting a class/course/seminar. For example "I know many of you are here simply to fill your requirements for management training. However, we might as well make this fun, etc."

A good exercise at the end of a class/course/seminar, is to divide the class into 2 teams. Have them physically group together at opposite sides of the classroom. Ask 10 questions on the major content items of the course. Keep track on which group correctly calls out the answers to the most questions first. Be prepare to have a tie-breaker. Could use an independent judge to determine who was right/wrong. Offer a prize of some kind (the undying gratitude of the instructor, or some such).

Educational Philosophy:
I HEAR ... I FORGET
I SEE .... I REMEMBER
I DO ..... I UNDERSTAND

At the beginning of a class/course/seminar, show a glass 1/2 full of water. Ask, now is this glass 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? Shows tendency towards pessimism or optimism. Do you tend to concentrate on what's there or what's missing? As far as class is concerned, want to encourage students not to look for what is missing during the course but how what is being presented can be used and what needs it can fill.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter

A teacher can never really TEACH unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame.