2. Skillful teachers are learners- always a student
of teaching. Skillful teachers constantly reach
out to colleagues with an assertive curiosity
that says, 'I don’t know it all. No one does or
ever will, but I am always growing, adding to
my knowledge and skills and effectiveness.
Joyce, Brown, & Peck
3. You must be the
change you wish to
see in the world.
~ Gandhi
4. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand,
essentially, is that the children repudiate their experience,
and all that gives them sustenance, and enter a limbo in
which they will no longer be black, and in which they
know that they can never become white.
Emery, 2000
5. Happiness is the
only good.
The time to be
Happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Ingersoll 1882
19. Education is not the
filling of a bucket,
but the lighting of a
fire.
W.B. Yeats
20. Five Pencil Lessons
1. Everything you do will always leave a mark.
2. You can always correct the mistakes you
make.
3. What is important is what is inside of you.
4. In life, you will undergo painful sharpening,
which will make you a better person.
5. To be the best pencil, you must allow
yourself to be held and guided by the hand
that holds you.
21. It’s what you learn
after you know it all
that counts.
John Wooden
22. The simplest
schoolboy is now
familiar with truths for
which Archimedes
would have sacrificed
his life.
23. Happiness keeps you sweet, trials keep you
strong, sorrows keep you human, failures
keep you humble, success keeps you glowing,
but only God keeps you going.
24. We have heard so far the voice of life on
one small world only. But we have at
last begun to listen for other voices in the
cosmic fugue. Carl Sagan
25. Education... has
produced a vast
population able to
read but unable to
distinguish what is
worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
26. I would rather have one rose
and a kind word from a friend
while I'm here than a whole
truck load when I'm gone.
27. It is a thousand times
better to have
common sense without
education than to
have education
without common
sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
28. No one has yet realized
the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and
generosity hidden in the
soul of a child. The
effort of every true
education should be to
unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
29. Look at a day when you are supremely
satisfied at the end. It's not a day when
you lounge around doing nothing; it's
when you've had everything to do, and
you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
30. Parents forgive
their children least
readily for the
faults they
themselves
instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
31. He who postpones the hour of living
rightly is like the rustic who waits for
the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
32. A day without laughter is a
day wasted. Charlie Chaplin
43. Would you not like to
try all sorts of lives —
one is so very small—
but that is the
satisfaction of writing
— one can impersonate
so many people.
Katherine Mansfield
44. Education is what
survives when what
you have learned has
been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
45. The fact that we are
human beings is
infinitely more
important than all the
peculiarities that
distinguish human
beings from one
another.
Simone de Beauvoir
46. Empty pockets never held
anyone back. Only empty
heads and empty hearts
can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
47. To exist is to change, to
change is to mature, to
mature is to go on
creating oneself
endlessly.
Henri Bergson
48. It is of practical value to learn
to like yourself. Since you
spend so much time with
yourself, you might as well get
some satisfaction out of the
relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale
49. If you smile at me, I
will understand.
That is something
everyone does in the
same language.
Steven Stills
50. The well-meaning contention that
all ideas have equal merit seems to
me little different from the
disastrous contention that no ideas
have any merit.
Carl Sagan
51. In the end, we will
remember not the
words of our enemies,
but the silence of our
friends.
MLK Jr.
52. Stand up to obstacles
and do something about
them. You will find they
haven’t half the strength
you think they have.
N.V. Peale
54. There is no such thing as a neutral educational
process. Education either functions as an
instrument which is used to facilitate the
integration of the younger generation into the
logic of the present system and bring about
conformity to it, or it becomes a practice of
freedom, the means by which men and women
deal critically and creatively with reality and
discover how to participate in the
transformation of the world.
Paulo Friere
55. Tolerance is the positive and
cordial effort to understand
another’s beliefs, practices and
habits without necessarily
sharing or accepting them.
Joshua Liebman
56. Since when do you have
to agree with people to
defend them from
injustice?
Lillian Helman
57. There is always something to do. There
are hungry people to feed, naked people
to clothe, sick people to comfort and make
well. And while I don't expect you to
save the world I do think it's not asking
too much for you to love those with whom
you sleep, share the happiness of those
whom you call friend, engage those among
you who are visionary, and remove from
your life those who offer you depression,
despair, and disrespect.
Nikki Giovanni
58. We are each of us
angels with only one
wing, and we can fly
only by embracing
each other.
Luciano de Crescenzo
59. The world is moved not only
by the mighty shoves of the
heroes,
but also by the aggregate of
the tiny pushes of each
honest worker.
Helen Keller
60. Nobody grows old merely living a number of years.
People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as
young as your faith, old as your doubts, young as
your self-confidence, old as your fears. In the central
place in every heart is a recording chamber. As long
as it receives messages of hope, cheer, and courage,
you will never grow old.
Ann Landers
61. The hottest places in
hell are reserved for
those who in times of
great moral crisis
maintain their
neutrality.
Dante
62. There is nothing
either good or bad
except that thinking
makes it so.
Shakespeare
63. Hugging is healthy: It helps our body’s immune
system, it keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it
reduces stress, it induces sleep, it’s invigorating, it’s
rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects, and
hugging is nothing less than a miracle drug.
Hugging is all natural: It is organic, naturally sweet,
no pesticides, no preservatives, no artificial
ingredients and 100 percent wholesome.
Hugging is practically perfect: There are no movable
parts, no batteries to wear out, no periodic checkups,
low energy consumption, high energy yield, inflation
proof, non-fattening, no monthly payments, no
insurance premiums, theft-proof, nontaxable, non-
polluting and , of course, fully returnable.
65. If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of
precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios
remaining the same, there would be:
57 Asians, 8 Africans, and 21 Europeans (14 from the
Western Hemisphere)
70 nonwhite, 30 white
70 non Christian, 30 Christian
50 % of the wealth would be in the hands of 6 people,
all from the US.
16 would speak English, and they would own 1/2 of
the phones
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
80 would live in substandard housing
1 would have a college education
67. A man of quality is
never threatened
by a woman
seeking equality.
68. I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I
am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s
my personal approach that creates the climate.
It’s my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to
make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be
a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
situations, it is MY response that decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or de-
escalated and a child humanized or
dehumanized.
Haim Ginott
69. What most of us
need is more
horsepower and
less exhaust.
70. For what doth God
require of thee, but to do
justly, to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy
God?
Micah 6:8
71. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage
and belief that human history is shaped.
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
72. Leaders who foster collaboration
search for integrative solutions. In
finding integrative solutions, you need
to change people’s thinking from an
either/or mentality to a positive
perspective on working together.
Kouzes and Posner
73. Much education today is monumentally
ineffective. All too often we are giving young
people cut flowers when we should be
teaching them to grow their own plants.
John Gardner
74. Reading builds the educated and
informed electorate so vital to our
democracy. Brad Henry
75. I would rather have one rose and a kind
word from a friend while I'm here than a
whole truck load when I'm gone.
78. Do what you can with
what you have where
you are.
Teddy Roosevelt
79. Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled
and fought for 5000 years, the right to learn is
undoubtedly the most fundamental…and whatever we
may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we
should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to
learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only
what we believe, but what we do not believe; not only
what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other
groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries
have said. W.E.B. Dubois
80. Every great dream begins with a
dreamer. Always remember, you have
within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach for the stars to
change the world.
Harriet Tubman,
American escaped slave
Civil War Soldier and Abolitionist
1820-1913
81. I can’t deal with compromise.
I keep nibbling at the
ultimate, and then I say, “OK,
this is as close as you’re going
to get.”
Twyla Tharp
82. Racism is a
grown-up
disease.
Let’s stop using
children to
spread it.
Ruby Bridges
85. If a man does not keep pace
with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however
measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
86. May we walk with
grace
And may the light
of the universe
Shine on our path.
87. The difference between the right word
and the almost right word is the
difference between lightning and a
lightning bug.
Mark Twain
88. It is difficult to get a man to understand
something when his salary depends upon
his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
89. A human being is
not attaining his
full heights until
he is educated.
Horace Mann
90. You can only protect your
liberties in this world by
protecting the other man’s
freedom. You can only be free
if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
91. Not everything that
can be counted
counts, and not
everything that
counts can be
counted.
Albert Einstein
92. We can never be sure that the
opinion we are endeavoring to
stifle is a false opinion; and if
we were sure, stifling it would
be an evil still.
John Stewart Mill
93. Life is short but there is
always time for
courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. In our language there is no word to say inferior or superiority or
equality because we are equal, it’s a known fact. But life has
become very complicated since the newcomers came here. And
how does your spirit react to it? It’s painful. You have to be
strong to walk through the storm. I know I’m a bridge between
two worlds. All I ask is for people to wash their feet before they
try to walk on me.
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) 1982
95. We make a living by
what we get;
we make a life by what
we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
96. Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
97. Individual difference in learning is an
observable phenomenon which can be
predicted, explained, and altered in a
great variety of ways. In contrast,
individual difference in learners…
frequently obscures our efforts to deal
directly with educational problems in
that it [focuses on] the person of the
learner rather than…the interaction
between individuals and the
educational and social environments
in which they have been placed.
Benjamin Bloom
98. If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift
someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up.
I would ask you, mother and father, brother and
sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and
son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone
up will lift you, as well.
- Maya Angelou
99. Somos el barco;
Somos el mar. We are the boat;
Yo navego en ti; We are the sea.
Tu navegas en mi. I sail in you;
You sail in me.
Pete Seeger
100. Whenever you get discouraged by the
enormity of our task, remember the
story of the person walking along the
beach where thousands of starfish are
stranded. He sees a young girl
throwing them back into the water, one
by one. He says to her, “It’s useless.
You’ll never be able to throw them all
back. What does it matter?” But the
girl holds up the one in her hand and
says, “It matters to this one.”
102. It's the action, not the fruit of the action,
that's important. You have to do the right
thing. It may not be in your power, may
not be in your time, that there will be any
fruit. But that does not mean you stop
doing the right thing. You may never
know what results come from your
action. But if you do nothing, there will
be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
103. I listen to critics because
often they are a good source
of information for what you
have to do differently.
John Chambers
104. By nature, man is nearly
alike; by practice, he gets
to be wide apart.
Confucius
105. Learn to be silent.
Let your quiet mind
listen and absorb.
106. The time is
always right
to do right.
Nelson Mandela
107. I have always had a
curious nature; I
enjoy learning, but I
dislike being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
108. Everyone likes to give as well as to
receive. No one wishes only to receive
all the time. We have taken much
from your culture…I wish you had
taken something from our culture…for
there were some good and beautiful
things in it.
Chief Dan George
109. Every problem has in it
the seeds of its
solution. If you don’t
have any problems, you
don’t get any seeds.
Norman V. Peale
111. He who wears his morality but
as his best garment were
better naked.
Kahlil Gibran
112. Respect is appreciation for the
separateness of the other
person, of the ways he or she
is unique.
Annie Gottlieb
113. I am of the opinion that my life
belongs to the community - and
as long as I live, it is my
privilege to do for it whatever I
can.
George Bernard Shaw
114. Don’t believe all you hear,
spend all you have or sleep all
you want.
115. I hear teachers’
comments,
“If Johnny would
just pay attention,
he’d be just fine.”
Well, if Mary could
see, she wouldn’t
be blind.
Dr. Daniel Baker
116. Those who expect to reap the
benefits of freedom must
undergo the fatigue of
supporting it.
Tom Paine
118. The Seven Root Causes of Evil and Violence:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
119. Remember the three
R's: Respect for self;
Respect for others; and
Responsibility for all
your actions.
121. To be able to
be caught up
into the world
of thought -
that is being
educated.
122. There are 4 things that you cannot recover: the
stone after the throw, the word after it’s said, the
occasion after the loss, and the time after it’s gone.
135. Although the world is full
of suffering, it is full also
of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
136. We can throw our pebble in
the pond and be confident
that its ever widening circle
will reach around the
world.
Dorothy Day
137. What lies behind us and
what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what
lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
138. A true friend is
someone who
reaches for your
hand and
touches your
heart.
139. Never doubt that a
small group of
thoughtful committed
citizens can change the
world: indeed it’s the
only thing that ever
has.
Margaret Mead
140. When you realize you've
made a mistake, take
immediate steps to
correct it .
141. Behold, how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity.
Psalms
142. Did is a word of achievement,
Won’t is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can’t is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power.
143. Good friends are
hard to find,
harder to leave,
and impossible to
forget.
144. You can’t hold a man
down without staying
down with him.
Booker T. Washington
145. I do not want my house to be
walled in on all sides and my
windows to be stuffed. I want
the culture of all lands to be
blown about my house as
freely as possible. But I refuse
to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi
146. Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
147. Learn to be
silent. Let your
quiet mind listen
and absorb.
Pythagoras
148. A pat on the back is only a
few vertebrae removed
from a kick in the pants,
but is miles ahead in
results.
V Wilcox
149. Use what talents you
possess; the woods
would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that
sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
150. Handicap is in the eye of
the beholder, not in the
beheld.
C. Collier
151. Bigotry is the child
of ignorance and
the parent of
hostility.
152. There never was in the world
two opinions alike, no more
than two hairs or two grains;
the most universal quality is
diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
156. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would
rather that my spark should burn out in a
brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by
dry-rot. I would rather be a superb
meteor, every atom of me, in magnificent
glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong
them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
157. I hear and I forget.
I see and I
remember.
I do and I
understand.
158. Chance only
favors the
prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
159. True, a little
learning is a
dangerous thing,
but it still beats
total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
161. Never be afraid
to sit awhile
and think.
Lorraine Hansberry
162. The measure of
success is not whether
you have a tough
problem to deal with,
but whether it’s the
same problem you had
last year.
John Foster Dulles
163. You cannot push
anyone up the
ladder unless he
is willing to climb
himself.
Andrew Carnegie
164. Good friends are like stars. You don't
always see them, but you know they are
always there.
165. Whenever God closes
one door he always
opens another, even
though sometimes it's
hell in the hallway.
171. Man is the only
Animal that
blushes. Or
needs to.
Mark Twain
172. Failure is simply the
opportunity to begin again,
this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
173. It really boils down to this: that all life is
interrelated. We are all caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied
into a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr.
185. He who seeks
rest finds
boredom. He
who seeks
work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas
186. If everyone is moving forward
together, then success takes
care of itself. Henry Ford
187. I see the mind of a 5
year old as a volcano
with two vents:
destructiveness and
creativeness. And I see
that to the extent that
we exercise the creative
channel, we atrophy the
destructive one.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
188. A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into
everything she says to a man, and takes a
grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
189. To exist is to change,
to change is to
mature, to mature is
to go on creating
oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
190. Perseverance is not
a long race; it is
many short races
one after another.
Walter Elliott
191. Never forget that justice is what love
looks like in public.
Cornel West
192. When a man realizes his littleness, his
greatness can appear.
H.G. Wells
195. Why should society
feel responsible only
for the education of
children, and not for
the education of all
adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
196. Justice will not be
served until those who
are unaffected are as
outraged as those who
are.
Benjamin Franklin
197. Another world is not
only possible, she is on
her way. On a quiet
day I can hear her
breathing.
198. The amount of satisfaction you get from life
depends largely on your own ingenuity,
selfsufficiency, and resourcefulness. People
who wait around for life to supply their
satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
William Menninger
199. Live and let live, as I
will do,
Love and let love, and
so will I.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
200. Rather see the wonders of the
world abroad than, living
dully sluggardized at home,
wear out thy youth with
shapeless idleness.
Shakespeare
202. Count your blessings instead of your
crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your
mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth;
Love your neighbor as much as yourself.
203. • Not everything that is faced can be
changed.
• But nothing can be changed until it
is faced.
James Baldwin
204. Before sunlight can
shine through a
window, the blinds
must be raised.
American Proverb
205. We are all faced with a
series of great
opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible
situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
206. We have within us a
limitless supply of new
beginnings.
207. • I am only one, but still I
am one.
I cannot do everything,
but still I can do
something;
• And because I cannot
do everything I will not
refuse to do the
something that I can
do.
208. True, a little learning is
a dangerous thing, but
it still beats total
ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
212. I think everyone
should go to college
and get a degree and
then spend six months
as a bartender and six
months as a cabdriver.
Then they would
really be educated.
Al McGuire
219. Learning is a result of listening,
which in turn leads to even
better listening and
attentiveness to the other
person. In other words, to learn
from the child, we must have
empathy, and empathy grows as
we learn.
Alice Miller
220. If our chalice is full
of self, there is
no room in it for
the water of life.
Abdu'l-Baha
221. The love of learning, the
sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of
books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
222. Real education should
educate us out of self into
something far finer, into a
selflessness which links us
with all humanity.
223. The illiterate of the future will not be
the person who cannot read. It will
be the person who does not know
how to learn. Alvin Toffler
226. Learning is not
attained by
chance, it must
be sought for
with ardor and
diligence.
Abigail Adams
227. I'm not afraid
of storms, for
I'm learning
to sail my
ship.
Aeschylus
228. A man who
won't die for
something is
not fit to live.
Martin Luther King
229. I have learned this at least by my
experiment: that if one advances
confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common
hours.
Henry David Thoreau
230. When you get
to the end of
your rope, tie
a knot and
hang on.
231. Even if you're
on the right
track, you'll
get run over if
you just sit
there.
Will Rogers
233. • I wake up every morning
determined both to
change the world and
have one hell of a good
time. Sometimes this
makes planning the day
a little difficult.
E. B. White
234. It is the supreme art of the
teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and
knowledge.
Albert Einstein
235. The universe is full of
magical things,
patiently waiting for
our wits to grow
sharper.
236. Some people will
never learn
anything, for this
reason, because
they understand
everything too
soon.
Alexander Pope
237. Skillful teachers are learners- always a student
of teaching. Skillful teachers constantly reach
out to colleagues with an assertive curiosity
that says, I don’t know it all. No one does or
ever will, but I am always growing, adding to
my knowledge and skills and effectiveness.
239. Everything that
irritates us about
others can lead
us to an
understanding
of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
240. What can be asserted without
evidence can also be dismissed
without evidence.
Christopher Hitchens
241. The great enemy of truth is very
often not the lie – deliberate,
contrived, and dishonest – but the
myth – persistent, persuasive, and
unrealistic. John F. Kennedy
242. Ignorance allied with power is the
most ferocious enemy justice can
have.
James Baldwin
245. An education isn't
how much you have
committed to memory,
or even how much you
know. It's being able
to differentiate
between what you
know and what you
don't.
Anatole France
246. Children have
to be educated,
but they have
also to be left
to educate
themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
247. Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease
to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
248. Education is the
ability to listen
to almost
anything without
losing your
temper or your
self-confidence.
Robert Frost
249. Advice to a teacher:
To maintain your sanity, remember
that aside from a very few
psychopaths most people are doing
the best they can.
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