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Todd’s
Collection of Quotes The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch A boss drives. A leader leads. - From the book: The Quality School by William Glasser "Does it make much difference whether a studentt stays in school and "leans oh his shovel" or drops out and "leans on his shovel?" - William Glasser
"I imagine a school system that recognizes that learning is natural,
that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate
learning. I imagine a school curriculum that values questions above
answers ... creativity above fact regurgitation ... individuality above
uniformity ... and excellence above standardized performance. I imagine
a society that respects its teachers and principals, pays them well, and
(most important) grants them the autonomy to do their job ... as the
creative individuals they are, and for the creative individuals in their
charge."
-Tom Peters (management consultant/author), excerpt from "Re-Imagine" "Let's all hope that we are proceeded in this world by a story of love." - From the movie Sweet Land "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. "Having a positive attitude may not change the world, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort" - ???? “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” - Oscar Wilde "after you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset" - Alfred North Whitehead "Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.” - Pablo Picasso
"I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity
with all the people of the world without exception." "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."
"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile." - Anonymous "Learning
is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with
diligence." - Abigail Adams "If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who would propose to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the majestic waves without the awful roar of the waters." -Frederick Douglas (author/abolitionist)
"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle." -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It
is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition,
there are already enough people to do that." -
G. H. Hardy
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning." - Plato "What greater or better gift can we offer the republic "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"Give
every man thy ear, but few thy voice." -
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"The
ancestor of every action is a thought." -
Ralph Waldo Emerson "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." -Jane Howard (journalist/writer)
"If
you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." -
Norman Douglas "There
are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who,
thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the
sun." -
Pablo Picasso "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." Mark Twain
"In
spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." -
Laurence J. Peter "One
ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a
fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words." -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I wish
there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence, there's a knob
called brightness, but it doesn't work." "It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -
Albert Einstein "'Tis
better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all
doubt." -
Abraham Lincoln "To
acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must
observe." -
Marilyn vos Savant "Fiction
is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -
Mark Twain "You
can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain "Many
of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up." -
Thomas A. Edison "Vision
is the art of seeing things invisible." -
Jonathan Swift "Nothing
more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong,
the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the
prudence -
Charles de Gaulle "I
do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take
thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the
greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money,
but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as
private. This is my teaching,
and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous
person." -
Socrates (Plato, "The Death
of Socrates") "The
right to do something does not mean that doing it is right." -
William Safire "It
is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned
English--up to fifty words used in correct context--no human being has been
reported to have learned dolphinese." -
Carl Sagan "You
can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails."
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Anonymous On second
thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. "You
cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself
do right in spite of your feelings." -
Pearl S. Buck "It
is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it." -
Aristotle "Fortune
favors the brave." -
Virgil "Education
is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -
B. F. Skinner "Derive
happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that
surrounds us." -
Henri Matisse "Chance
favors the prepared mind." -
Louis Pasteur "Speak
clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. At this
point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. "Brevity
is the soul of wit."
- William Shakespeare Now and
then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. "Everyone
thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -
Leo Tolstoy "You
must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the
ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"This, however, is my teaching: whoever would one day learn to fly must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to leap and to climb and to dance; you cannot fly into flying!" - Friedrich Nietzsche "Wherever they go and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing." - A.A. Milne " I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then ad- vise them to do it." - Harry S. Truman
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble
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