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HARBINS ELEMENTARY VISITATION DAYLearning in Action

When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light--you will never forget it.- Carl Sagan

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.- Edward De Bono

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.- Harry K. Wong

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and let him know that you trust him.- Booker T. Washington

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.- Henri Frederic Amiel

The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.- Jean Piaget

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.- Patricia Neal

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.-Martin Luther King Jr.

A mind when stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.- Anonymous

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.-Japanese Proverb

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.- Sophocles

I want teachers to remember that they are artists of human potential. We never know where our teaching might take a students imagination.- Shana Peeples

The silver bullet is you. Superman is sitting in our classrooms every day and walking our halls. No technology replaces you.- Josh Stumpenhorst

The thing that was exciting to me was the idea of a second-grade student or first-grade student here holding one of these devices and feeling empowered and feeling that somebody believed in them and that they could do anything.- Brad Montague

I knew that education changed my life. It transformed me. It gave me status. It gave me confidence. It gave me a career. It helped me to support my family, to bring my family to another country, to be safe.- Sakena Yacoobi

Dear world leaders, dear brothers and sisters. Education is not a privilege. Education is a right. Education is peace.- Malala Yousafzai

I believe education today is the next civil right, which means you educators are at the forefront of a critical battle of who learns what, and how, and we have a great opportunity with technology.-Soledad OBrien

Teachers are the reason I am alive. They are the reason I became a teacher. They are the reason I am standing here today.- John B. King, US Sec. of Education

Tech integration should only enhance the teacher and student experience, deepen the passion. Passion comes first.-Kerry Gallagher

How we see our students is directly responsible for how they see themselves.- Kevin Honeycutt

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