"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have."
Charles Schwab
"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement."
Bertrand Russell
"The nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never will and never can be."
Thomas Jefferson
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
Albert Einstein
"The moment a question arises, itself, is the ignition step to find the solution."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by M. Srikanth Babu --- India
"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
Ayn Rand
"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."
Henry Brooks Adams
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Will Rogers
"The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed."
Helen Keller
"A tool is only as good as the discipline used to wield it."
Copyright © 1995 John L. Giroux
"If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught."
Oscar Hammerstein II
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
Robert Frost
"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."
Carl Rogers
"Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in a world of work and to appreciate life."
Brigham Young
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Albert Einstein
"Know or listen to those who know."
Baltasar Gracian
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Writing shouldn't be forced to be written, but inspired to be created."
Written in 2006 by Daria G. --- Oregon
"A child's attitude towards everything is an artist's attitude."
Willa Cather
"To make headway, improve your head."
B. C. Forbes