"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education."
Thomas Jefferson
"A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
James B. Stockdale
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
Norman Cousins
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
Kahlil Gibran
"There are three ways to be innovative about the way you do things. Think laterally, Think horizontally, Now thinkabout the third one."
Copyright © 2004 Sarat Chandra Das
Coined while I took my passage through the lift.
"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."
John Holt
"Only soup cans need labels, not people."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jocelyn R., Age 13 --- Arizona
"If you are rich in knowledge, you can demand the universe."
Copyright © 2004 Chinnappan Baskar
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie
"Doubt grows with knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
Christopher Morley
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
Immanuel Kant
"One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil."
Friedrich Nietzsche --- Submitted by Y. Luu
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein
"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"See a man that will become a good teacher; he's a man whose heart is large enough to learn from anybody and everybody, not minding age or sex."
Copyright © 2004 Tayo Jackson
I have been in the place of teaching and leading people and sometimes I've failed. This was the very first thing I learned afterwards.
"We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."
W. Edwards Deming