Cooperative Learning

Competition has been shown

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

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

Always try to do

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way – how many pleasing things are done for you. Claude M. Bristol

Collaboration operates through a

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

The mind that opens

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size Albert Einstein

The mind, once stretched

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is through cooperation,

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived. Ralph Charell

… let us unite,

… let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
Rabindranath Tagore