As with numbers and images, the Net can provide huge collections of text materials ranging from diaries and historical documents to current newspapers, blogs and reference works such as the Visual Thesaurus and quotation web sites that offer dozens of quotations on ideas, concepts and objects such as curiosity, cats and cussedness.

Again because of copyright, we cannot reproduce most of these text resources here on a CD, but we can at least hint at the value of such words and the challenge of interpreting them by using quotations from famous people since those words are not covered by copyright. With an Internet connection we could explore far ranging connections across vast collections.

Did "Curiosity kill the cat?"

You and your team will consider the curiosity and cat quotations listed below before coming to a judgment on the question above, then:

1. You will create a new quotation announcing your stance on the issue and
2. You will create a brief (125 word) essay defending and explaining your stance.
   

Curiosity and Wonder Quotations	Cat Quotations
Curiosity killed the cat.	Curiosity killed the cat.
Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back. Eugene O'Neill	Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." E. E. Cummings
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. -Albert Einstein	When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
	If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein	If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Stephen Wright
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France	Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. Cervantes
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. Isaiah Berlin	If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain
Wonder implies the desire to learn. Aristotle
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day. Johnny Carson
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.        I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. Michel de Montaigne
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. Arthur C. Clarke
Quotation Sites http://www.quotationspage.com http://en.thinkexist.com http://www.wisdomquotes.com http://www.giga-usa.com/

© Jamie McKenzie, 2005, all rights reserved. No copies can be made or distributed in any format without the express written permission of the author. This CD is intended for use by participants during a workshop in Perth on May 27 only.