"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny."
Carl Schurz
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."
Charles Dickens
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
David Carradine
"Good teachers learn from their mistakes. Great teachers learn from other's mistakes."
Copyright © 2004 Reed Markham, Ph.D.
"Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better."
Sylvia Porter
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
Sidney Hook
"Accurate knowledge is the life-blood of Nature. Publication is only the body of Nature. The peer-reviewed process (in publication) is the control of the progress of Nature."
Copyright © 2004 Hendry Izaac Elim
"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The probability of success is determined by the probability of error."
Copyright © 2004 Dr. D.P. Tripathy
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
Norman Douglas
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover, with accuracy, the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Plato
"It is not just the concept of "thinking outside of the box" instead of on the inside. If you DO think on the inside, think in the middle where you can see each of the corners. And even better, if you think OUTSIDE the box, do it at and angle where you really are getting the real view of the entire thing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Meredeth H., Age 15 --- Utah
"Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
Samuel Smiles
"Our best chance for happiness is education."
Mark VanDorn
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience."
Carl Rogers
"To say "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effortand strengthen them beyond our knowledge!"
Phillips Brooks
"Our basic building block is laid upon knowledge and education; without the two, we are nothing."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jessica Mkari --- New South Wales, Australia
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."
Louis A. Berman
"Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement!"
Edward Blishen