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"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
DECEMBER 2003


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December 17, 2003
"I want you to start a crusade in your life ...to dare to be your best."
William Danforth
December 17, 2003
"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
December 17, 2003
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best."
Marva Collins
December 15, 2003
"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
December 15, 2003
"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
Dr. John G. Hibben
December 15, 2003
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
Walt Disney
December 10, 2003
"Inside every problem are the seeds of innovative solutions."
Reed Markham --- Submitted by B.M. --- Utah
December 10, 2003
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein
December 10, 2003
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus
December 8, 2003
"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
December 8, 2003
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
December 8, 2003
"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
December 3, 2003
"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
William Glasser
December 3, 2003
"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
December 3, 2003
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
Ambrose Bierce
December 1, 2003
"A student is born with wings, but a teacher shows them how to use them to fly."
Copyright © 2003 Shelby Stollery
December 1, 2003
"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaela Goad --- Dorset, United Kingdom
December 1, 2003
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
Henry Peter Broughan