A Collection of Quotes
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Affects
A teacher
affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops. | |
ApplyApply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then... do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca | |
Autograph
Every job is a
self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with
excellence. | |
Awakening
It is the
supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression
and knowledge. | |
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Be nice
If you can't
say something nice, don't say anything at all. | |
Be ReadyI am always ready
to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill | |
Bigger than ...
Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools,
experience, or personal disposition alone can
accomplish. | |
Brilliance
There is a
brilliant child locked inside every student. | |
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Challenge
What is
important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to
tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain
answers. | |
ChangeWhen the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. Chinese Proverb | ||
Common senseCommon sense is
the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein | |
CriticismAny fool can see what's wrong but can you see what's right? Winston Churchill | ||
CultureA fish only discovers its need for water when it is no longer in it. Our own culture is like water for the fish. It sustains us. We live and breathe through it. Stephanie Quappe and Giovanna Cantatore | ||
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Dare to teach!He who dares to
teach must never cease to learn.
Richard Henry Dann | |
Destiny?Poverty, race, ethnicity and immigration status are not in themselves determinative of student achievement. Demography is not destiny ... Justice Leland DeGrasse -- NY | |
DiscoverEducation is a
progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant | |
Discoverers
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. | |
Diversity
Good schools, like good societies and good families,
celebrate and cherish diversity. | |
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Effects
A teacher
effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops. | |
EmpowerEducation is not a
form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take
control of their lives.
Unknown | |
EmpowermentThe
education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail
to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for
all. Aung San Suu Kyi | |
Engaging LearnersContent is King but Context is the Kingdom Tony O'Driscoll | ||
Enjoy LifeI live by one principle: Enjoy life with no conditions!
People
say, "If I had your health, if I had your money, oh, I would
enjoy myself."
It is not true. I would be happy if I were lying sick in a hospital bed. It must come from the inside. That is the one thing I hop I have contributed to my children, by example and by talk: to make no conditions, to understand that life is a wonderful thing and to enjoy it, every day, to the full. To me the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who are conscious and those who are unconscious. To me there is no difference among men when it comes to their color, their race, their religion; they are all equal. Only the degree of their awareness of the world they live in, of the joy and the pleasure of living, of the need of sharing that awareness with others and bringing it to their fellowmen (if they happen to be fortunate enough to have talent) is a measure of this difference.
During my long life I have learned one lesson: that the most
important thing is to realize why one is alive - and I think it is
not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to
do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To
bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you
have been alive, that is the most important thing.
Arthur Rubinstein | |
Enthusiasm
Nothing is ever
achieved without enthusiasm. | |
EthicsA man's ethical
behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be
in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and
hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein | |
ExerciseThe test and the
use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of
his mind.
Jacques Martin Barzun | |
ExperienceWe start as fools and become wise through experience. African Proverb | ||
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Facts
It is possible
to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated. | |
Feelings
They may forget
what you said but they will never forget how you made them
feel. | |
Fine PrintEducation is when
you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you
don't.
Pete Seeger | |
FireEducation is not
the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats | |
FreedomEverything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl | ||
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GoalA goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill | ||
GraceIt Takes Grace - And Grit Treya Killam Wilber | ||
GradesIf I were asked to
enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would
head the list... If I can't give a child a better reason for
studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and
go home and stay there.
Dorothy De Zouche | |
Greatness
Keep away from
people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great. | |
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HappinessBoth a concentration camp prisoner and world-respected author and psychotherapist in his lifetime, Viktor Frankl writes the following advice about happiness: "Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run - in the long-run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it." Of course, the important part is the "...in the long-run..." Viktor Frankl | ||
Hearts
Your heart is
slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because
you're a teacher. | |
Honest Abe
Upon the
subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most
important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. | |
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IdeaIf you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw | ||
IgnoranceThere is a time in
every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy
is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself
for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide
universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to
him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
ImitationThe function of
education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but
be yourself all the time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti | |
In the end
That is the
difference between good teachers and great teachers: good
teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee
a pupil's ends. | |
Information
Information
cannot replace education. | |
Inspiration
We all need
someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. | |
Instruction
Instruction
begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put
yourself in his place so that you may understand what he learns
and the way he understands it. | |
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Journey of RevengeBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. Confucius, Chinese philosopher | ||
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Kids
The kids in our
classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter
we teach. | |
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Learn to think
It must be
remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds
of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that
is possible, and always to think for themselves. | |
Learning
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the
same way. | |
Lessons
You can teach a
student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by
creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long
as he lives. | |
LifeThere are two
types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And
the other how to live.
John Adams | |
Life Skills
The objective
of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. | |
Love
A word as to
the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be
imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the
loving touch of the teacher. | |
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MannersGood manners will
open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas | |
Miracles
My heart is
singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light
of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mild, and
behold, all things are changed. | |
MomsEducation
commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the
hearing of little children tends towards the formation of
character.
Hosea Ballou | |
MotivationIt is
amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit. Harry S Truman | ||
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Needs
Children need
models rather than critics. | |
No interferenceI have never let
my schooling interfere with my education
Mark Twain | |
Not really hardDo not worry about
your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
greater. Albert Einstein | |
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One step at a time
Take a deep
breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a
time. | |
OpportunityYour biggest
opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job,
industry, education, experience or interests.
Brian Tracy | |
Our role...
As a teacher I
feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my
classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel
successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...
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Part of the ProblemWhat we're
saying today is that you're either part of the solution, or you're
part of the problem. Eldridge Cleaver (1935-98, founder member and information minister of the Black Panthers, American political activist group, in a speech in 1968.) | ||
Passion
Teaching is not
a profession; it's a passion. | |
Perfection
Pleasure in the
job puts perfection in the work. | |
PerseverenceLife is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Author: Henry Ford (1863-1953) founder of Ford Motor Company | ||
PleasureIt has always
seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about
education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an
educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able
to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be
educated.
Edith Hamilton | |
PrepareA good education
is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as
one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain, University of Chicago | |
Press onNothing in the
world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing
is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world
is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will
solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge | |
Prosperity
If I were asked
... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of
Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the
superiority of their women. | |
ProverbIf you are
planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade,
plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate
people.
Chinese proverb | |
Provisions
Education is
the best provision for old age. | |
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Questioning
The important
thing is not to stop questioning. | |
Questions
Education is
more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing
questions. | |
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Rational Societies
In a completely
rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and
the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because
passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought
to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone
could have. | |
Reading
It is books
that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything
else, read all that you can. | |
Reality?As far as the laws
of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far
as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein | |
RememberEducation is what
survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner | |
ReplaceEducation's
purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes | |
Responsibility
It is the
responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear
what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over
and over that we love them and that they are not alone. | |
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Sam Walton's 10 RulesRULE 1: COMMIT to your business, believe in it more than anybody else. RULE 2: SHARE with your associates, and behave as a servant leader in a partnership. RULE 3: MOTIVATE your partners, think of new and more interesting ways to motivate and challenge them. RULE 4: COMMUNICATE everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they understand, the more they'll care. RULE 5: APPRECIATE everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute a few well-chose, well-timed, sincere words of praise. RULE 6: CELEBRATE your successes. RULE 7: LISTEN to everyone in your company, and figure out ways to get them talking. RULE 8: EXCEED your customer's expectations. RULE 9: CONTROL your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. You can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. RULE 10: SWIM upstream. Go the other way. Ignore conventional wisdom.
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Seeds...
It's not what
is poured into a student, but what is planted. | |
Silliness
If people did
not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get
done. | |
Sport
Learning is not
a spectator sport. | |
Success
Aim for
success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong,
because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and
move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks
behind perfectionism. | |
SupermanLabel on a child's
Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to
fly.
Unknown | |
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TaskBe of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Helen Keller | ||
Temper, TemperEducation is the
ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
your self-confidence.
Robert Frost | |
The Best
We're going to
have the best-educated American people in the world. | |
The ObjectThe object of
education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout
their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins | |
ThinkingWe cannot
solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created
them. Albert Einstein | ||
Thought
Learning
without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is
perilous. | |
Thoughts
It is the mark
of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it. | |
Time Machine
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Tolerance
The highest
result of education is tolerance. | |
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UnderstandI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucious (551 BC - 479 BC) | |
Understanding
That is what
learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood
all your life, but in a new way. | |
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Vitality
The job of an
educator is to teach students to see vitality in
themselves. | |
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Weak?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 (1712-1778) | |
Wrong Road?If someone is
going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him
up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn | |