"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"Each child is a star. They only shine when they seek the light within themselves."
Copyright © 2006 Tim McCastland
Created this little quote today while in my master's program for leadership in administration for education.
"Teachers, the new generation will be your devotion."
M.Kemal Ataturk --- Submitted by Ayse Nehri --- Turkey
"Let life be your teacher, for it is the only thing that changes as you do."
Written in 2006 by Anna-Lee P., Age 13 --- Arkansas
"Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time."
Hebrew Proverb
"Information is not knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."
Orlando A. Battista
"One life is all you've got; your choices are your own. So take care when deciding because your future depends on it."
Written in 2006 by Nic Muhl --- South Africa
"A pessimist is a person who sees something positive in him/her being negative."
Written in 2006 by Solomon Da --- India
"Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself."
John Dewey
"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed torun wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth. If no useful seeds areput into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."
James Allen
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
David Russell
"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems."
Mark Victor Hansen
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them."
Dean Rusk
"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing."
Arnold Glasgow
"I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty ofhappiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if onlybecause to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."
John Lubbock
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence ofbeauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
Albert Einstein
"When you lead with respect rather than fear, you become a great teacher."
Copyright © 2006 David E. Eurich
"I may be young and still learning, but caterpillars grow into butterflies and then fly away."
Written in 2005 by Kim S. T., Age 13 --- Massachusetts
I made a banner out of this in 2005 and during that time, it was so simple and it didn't have much meaning to it. But as I was looking through my portfolio of banners a couple of weeks ago, I saw that this was one of the deepest ones to me and it means so much.
"The only way of knowing where your limit is, is by going beyond it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.J. van Z., Age 16 --- South Africa
"All I can do is tell you how to do it, but in the end, it's YOU that's got to do it!"
Kyle C. --- Submitted by Niki H., Age 14 --- Utah
This quote has helped me beyond measure... thank you!
"Develop an egoless character."
Written in 2000 by Sheocharan Agarwal --- India
"To be a good human being... think good and do good. To be a good professional... work hard , work smart and be honest with yourself."
Life --- Submitted by Kaushik Ganguly --- India
Experience gathered from my own life.