FIRST THINGS FIRST.

FIRST UNDERSTAND,

THEN BE UNDERSTOOD.

Skillful teachers are learners- always a student of teaching. Skillful teachers constantly reach out to colleagues with an assertive curiosity that says, 'I don’t know it all. No one does or ever will, but I am always growing, adding to my knowledge and skills and effectiveness.

Joyce, Brown, & Peck

You must be the

change you wish to

see in the world. ~ Gandhi

A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the children repudiate their experience, and all that gives them sustenance, and enter a limbo in

which they will no longer be black, and in which they know that they can never become white.

Emery, 2000

Happiness is the

only good.

The time to be

Happy is now.

The place to be happy is here.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Ingersoll 1882

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

Education is our passport to the

future, for tomorrow

belongs to the people who

prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Pray for peace, work for justice, sing for joy

Winners make things happen; Losers let things happen.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow!

Gratitude takes three forms: A feeling in the heart, An expression in words, And a giving in return. Arabic Proverb

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

It is not beauty to abruptly halt the growth of a young mind and to overlay it with the frame of an imposed culture.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Friends are the angels

who lift our feet when

our wings are too

battered to fly.

We are what we

repeatedly do.

Excellence then, is not

an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Variety is the mother

of enjoyment.

Benjamin Disraeli

Go and wake up your

luck.

Persian proverb

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.

W.B. Yeats

Five Pencil Lessons

1. Everything you do will always leave a mark.

2. You can always correct the mistakes you make.

3. What is important is what is inside of you.

4. In life, you will undergo painful sharpening, which will make you a better person.

5. To be the best pencil, you must allow yourself to be held and guided by the hand that holds you.

It’s what you learn after you know it all

that counts.

John Wooden

The simplest

schoolboy is now

familiar with truths for

which Archimedes

would have sacrificed

his life.

Happiness keeps you sweet, trials keep you strong, sorrows keep you human, failures

keep you humble, success keeps you glowing, but only God keeps you going.

We have heard so far the voice of life on

one small world only. But we have at

last begun to listen for other voices in the

cosmic fugue. Carl Sagan

Education... has produced a vast

population able to read but unable to distinguish what is

worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

I would rather have one rose

and a kind word from a friend

while I'm here than a whole

truck load when I'm gone.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll

No one has yet realized

the wealth of sympathy,

the kindness and

generosity hidden in the

soul of a child. The

effort of every true

education should be to

unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Thatcher

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for

the river to run out before he crosses. Horace

A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your

mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

I prefer the company of

peasants because they have not been

educated sufficiently to

reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Education is the key to unlock the

golden door of freedom.

George Washington Carver

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain

Men willingly

believe what

they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small— but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield

Education is what

survives when what

you have learned has

been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more

important than all the peculiarities that

distinguish human beings from one

another.

Simone de Beauvoir

Empty pockets never held

anyone back. Only empty

heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to

mature is to go on creating oneself

endlessly.

Henri Bergson

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you spend so much time with yourself, you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale

If you smile at me, I will understand.

That is something everyone does in the

same language.

Steven Stills

The well-meaning contention that

all ideas have equal merit seems to

me little different from the

disastrous contention that no ideas

have any merit.

Carl Sagan

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

MLK Jr.

Stand up to obstacles and do something about them. You will find they haven’t half the strength

you think they have. N.V. Peale

Give people more than they expect and

do it cheerfully.

There is no such thing as a neutral educational

process. Education either functions as an

instrument which is used to facilitate the

integration of the younger generation into the

logic of the present system and bring about

conformity to it, or it becomes a practice of

freedom, the means by which men and women

deal critically and creatively with reality and

discover how to participate in the

transformation of the world.

Paulo Friere

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand

another’s beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Joshua Liebman

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Helman

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.

Luciano de Crescenzo

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the

heroes, but also by the aggregate of

the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

Nobody grows old merely living a number of years.

People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as

young as your faith, old as your doubts, young as

your self-confidence, old as your fears. In the central

place in every heart is a recording chamber. As long

as it receives messages of hope, cheer, and courage,

you will never grow old.

Ann Landers

The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who in times of great moral crisis

maintain their neutrality.

Dante

There is nothing

either good or bad

except that thinking

makes it so.

Shakespeare

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system, it keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it

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rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects, and

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low energy consumption, high energy yield, inflation

proof, non-fattening, no monthly payments, no

insurance premiums, theft-proof, nontaxable, non-

polluting and , of course, fully returnable.

Words are the voice of the heart.

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of

precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios

remaining the same, there would be:

57 Asians, 8 Africans, and 21 Europeans (14 from the Western Hemisphere)

70 nonwhite, 30 white

70 non Christian, 30 Christian

50 % of the wealth would be in the hands of 6 people, all from the US.

16 would speak English, and they would own 1/2 of the phones

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

80 would live in substandard housing

1 would have a college education

Nothing is

really lost. It’s

just where it

doesn’t belong.

A man of quality is never threatened

by a woman seeking equality.

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I

am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s

my personal approach that creates the climate.

It’s my daily mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to

make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be

a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all

situations, it is MY response that decides

whether a crisis will be escalated or de-

escalated and a child humanized or

dehumanized.

Haim Ginott

What most of us need is more

horsepower and less exhaust.

For what doth God

require of thee, but to do

justly, to love mercy, and

to walk humbly with thy

God?

Micah 6:8

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert F. Kennedy

Leaders who foster collaboration search for integrative solutions. In

finding integrative solutions, you need to change people’s thinking from an

either/or mentality to a positive perspective on working together.

Kouzes and Posner

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young

people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John Gardner

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our

democracy. Brad Henry

I would rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I'm here than a

whole truck load when I'm gone.

The harder we try,

the luckier we are.

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. Mark Twain

Do what you can with what you have where you are. Teddy Roosevelt

Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5000 years, the right to learn is

undoubtedly the most fundamental…and whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to

learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only what we believe, but what we do not believe; not only

what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries

have said. W.E.B. Dubois

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience,

and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman, American escaped slave Civil War Soldier and Abolitionist 1820-1913

I can’t deal with compromise. I keep nibbling at the

ultimate, and then I say, “OK, this is as close as you’re going

to get.”

Twyla Tharp

Racism is a grown-up disease.

Let’s stop using children to spread it.

Ruby Bridges

When you lose,

don’t lose the

lesson.

We cannot

direct the

wind,

but we can

adjust the

sails.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however

measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

May we walk with

grace

And may the light

of the universe

Shine on our path.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon

his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. Horace Mann

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be

counted.

Albert Einstein

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would

be an evil still.

John Stewart Mill

Life is short but there is

always time for

courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our language there is no word to say inferior or superiority or

equality because we are equal, it’s a known fact. But life has

become very complicated since the newcomers came here. And

how does your spirit react to it? It’s painful. You have to be

strong to walk through the storm. I know I’m a bridge between

two worlds. All I ask is for people to wash their feet before they

try to walk on me. Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) 1982

We make a living by what we get;

we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Individual difference in learning is an

observable phenomenon which can be

predicted, explained, and altered in a

great variety of ways. In contrast,

individual difference in learners…

frequently obscures our efforts to deal

directly with educational problems in

that it [focuses on] the person of the

learner rather than…the interaction

between individuals and the

educational and social environments

in which they have been placed.

Benjamin Bloom

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up.

I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and

son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

- Maya Angelou

Somos el barco;

Somos el mar.

Yo navego en ti;

Tu navegas en mi.

We are the boat;

We are the sea.

I sail in you;

You sail in me.

Pete Seeger

Whenever you get discouraged by the enormity of our task, remember the

story of the person walking along the beach where thousands of starfish are

stranded. He sees a young girl throwing them back into the water, one by one. He says to her, “It’s useless. You’ll never be able to throw them all back. What does it matter?” But the girl holds up the one in her hand and

says, “It matters to this one.”

Talk slowly but think

quickly.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action,

that's important. You have to do the right

thing. It may not be in your power, may

not be in your time, that there will be any

fruit. But that does not mean you stop

doing the right thing. You may never

know what results come from your

action. But if you do nothing, there will

be no result.

Mahatma Gandhi

I listen to critics because

often they are a good source

of information for what you

have to do differently.

John Chambers

By nature, man is nearly

alike; by practice, he gets

to be wide apart.

Confucius

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

The time is always right to do right.

Nelson Mandela

I have always had a curious nature; I

enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

Everyone likes to give as well as to receive. No one wishes only to receive

all the time. We have taken much from your culture…I wish you had

taken something from our culture…for there were some good and beautiful

things in it.

Chief Dan George

Every problem has in it

the seeds of its

solution. If you don’t

have any problems, you

don’t get any seeds.

Norman V. Peale

To become different from what we are…

we must first have some awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were

better naked.

Kahlil Gibran

Respect is appreciation for the separateness of the other person, of the ways he or she is unique. Annie Gottlieb

I am of the opinion that my life

belongs to the community - and

as long as I live, it is my

privilege to do for it whatever I

can.

George Bernard Shaw

Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all

you want.

I hear teachers’ comments,

“If Johnny would just pay attention, he’d be just fine.”

Well, if Mary could see, she wouldn’t

be blind.

Dr. Daniel Baker

Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom must

undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Tom Paine

I’d rather die standing than

live on my knees.

Zapata

The Seven Root Causes of Evil and Violence:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.

Knowledge without character.

Commerce without morality.

Science without humanity.

Worship without sacrifice.

Politics without principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Remember the three R's: Respect for self;

Respect for others; and Responsibility for all

your actions.

When a subject

becomes totally

obsolete we

make it a

required course. Peter Drucker

To be able to

be caught up

into the world

of thought -

that is being educated.

There are 4 things that you cannot recover: the stone after the throw, the word after it’s said, the

occasion after the loss, and the time after it’s gone.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from. Anthony D’Angelo

The only

person who is

educated is

the one who

has learned

how to learn

and change. Carl Rogers

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate

themselves throughout their lives.

The roots of

education are

bitter, but the

fruit is sweet. Aristotle

The only thing

that interferes

with my

learning is my

education. Albert Einstein

It is error only, and not truth, that

shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

There is real magic in

enthusiasm. It spells the

difference between

mediocrity &

accomplishment.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I

cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I’m not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

What do we live for if it is not to make life less

difficult for each other.

George Eliot

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Training that brings about no change is

as effective as a parachute that

opens on the first bounce.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident

that its ever widening circle will reach around the

world.

Dorothy Day

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend is someone who

reaches for your hand and

touches your heart.

Never doubt that a small group of

thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed it’s the only thing that ever

has. Margaret Mead

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it .

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to

dwell together in unity.

Psalms

Did is a word of achievement,

Won’t is a word of retreat,

Might is a word of bereavement,

Can’t is a word of defeat,

Ought is a word of duty,

Try is a word each hour,

Will is a word of beauty,

Can is a word of power.

Good friends are hard to find,

harder to leave, and impossible to

forget.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want my house to be

walled in on all sides and my

windows to be stuffed. I want

the culture of all lands to be

blown about my house as

freely as possible. But I refuse

to be blown off my feet by any.

Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

Learn to be silent. Let your

quiet mind listen and absorb.

Pythagoras

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants,

but is miles ahead in results.

V Wilcox

Use what talents you

possess; the woods

would be very silent

if no birds sang there

except those that

sang best. Henry Van Dyke

Handicap is in the eye of

the beholder, not in the

beheld.

C. Collier

Bigotry is the child

of ignorance and

the parent of

hostility.

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is

diversity.

Michel de Montaigne

When love and skill work together,

expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

Never confuse

activity with productivity.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me, in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

Chance only

favors the

prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Abigail Van Buren

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

Never be afraid

to sit awhile

and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

The measure of success is not whether

you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the

same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are

always there.

Whenever God closes

one door he always

opens another, even

though sometimes it's

hell in the hallway.

Good friends, good

books and a sleepy

conscience: this is

the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Worry looks around,

Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called

research, would it? Albert Einstein

Contentment is the only

real wealth. Alfred Nobel

Man is the only

Animal that

blushes. Or

needs to.

Mark Twain

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an

inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all

indirectly. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes

Don't bother just to be better than your

contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be

better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Human history becomes more and more a race between

education and catastrophe. Herbert George Wells

Those who educate children

well are more to be honored than

parents, for these only gave life, those the art

of living well. Aristotle

Experience

teaches only

the teachable

Aldous Huxley

Order is the shape upon

which beauty depends.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Where there is

love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. Dylan Thomas

If everyone is moving forward

together, then success takes

care of itself. Henry Ford

I see the mind of a 5 year old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. And I see that to the extent that we exercise the creative channel, we atrophy the destructive one.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. Helen Rowland

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Cornel West

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

H.G. Wells

Happy people do a great deal for their friends. Willa Cather

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. Thomas Jefferson

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin

Another world is not only possible, she is on

her way. On a quiet day I can hear her

breathing.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, selfsufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. William Menninger

Live and let live, as I

will do,

Love and let love, and

so will I.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rather see the wonders of the world abroad than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Shakespeare

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. A.A. Milne

Count your blessings instead of your crosses;

Count your gains instead of your losses.

Count your joys instead of your woes;

Count your friends instead of your foes.

Count your smiles instead of your tears;

Count your courage instead of your fears.

Count your full years instead of your lean;

Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.

Count your health instead of your wealth;

Love your neighbor as much as yourself.

• Not everything that is faced can be changed.

• But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised.

American Proverb

We are all faced with a series of great

opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible

situations.

Charles R. Swindoll

We have within us a limitless supply of new

beginnings.

• I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;

• And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but

it still beats total ignorance.

Abigail Van Buren

Responsibility educates.

Wendell Phillips

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heinrich Heine

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Al McGuire

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. Robert Anthony

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always remember... when life hands you Lemons, ask for Tequila and Salt and call me over!

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

Learning is a result of listening,

which in turn leads to even

better listening and

attentiveness to the other

person. In other words, to learn

from the child, we must have

empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller

If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life.

Abdu'l-Baha

The love of learning, the

sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of

books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer, into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler

It’s always too

early to quit.

N.V.Peale

There are no

passengers on

Spaceship Earth.

We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan

Learning is not

attained by

chance, it must

be sought for

with ardor and

diligence. Abigail Adams

I'm not afraid

of storms, for

I'm learning

to sail my

ship.

Aeschylus

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Even if you're

on the right

track, you'll

get run over if

you just sit

there.

Will Rogers

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

• I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.

E. B. White

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope

Skillful teachers are learners- always a student of teaching. Skillful teachers constantly reach out to colleagues with an assertive curiosity that says, I don’t know it all. No one does or ever will, but I am always growing, adding to my knowledge and skills and effectiveness.

In the particular lies the universal. James Joyce

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy

Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James Baldwin

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Thomas Jefferson

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Advice to a teacher:

To maintain your sanity, remember that aside from a very few psychopaths most people are doing the best they can.

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