"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"I want you to start a crusade in your life ...to dare to be your best."
William Danforth
"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."
John Dewey
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best."
Marva Collins
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
Kahlil Gibran
"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
Dr. John G. Hibben
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
Walt Disney
"Inside every problem are the seeds of innovative solutions."
Reed Markham --- Submitted by B.M. --- Utah
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus
"Pursue your dreams or they will end up being events that seem to only happen in fairytales."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Megan P., Age 18 --- Maryland
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
"I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
Septima Poinsette Clark
"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
William Glasser
"Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them."
Author Unknown
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
Ambrose Bierce
"A student is born with wings, but a teacher shows them how to use them to fly."
Copyright © 2003 Shelby Stollery
"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaela Goad --- Dorset, United Kingdom
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
Henry Peter Broughan