LIGHT MY FIRE! Plutarch: The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
*****************************************************************************FAITH AND HOPE PLUS+++ Helen Keller: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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WITH A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR Jean Jacques Rosseau: We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.
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IF I HAD A... Abraham Maslow: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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NEVER FEAR TO BE WRONG Dr. David M. Burns: 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.
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BUILD A BRIDGE TO TOMORROW Nikos Kazantzakis: Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
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WALK STEP BY STEP BY STEP Richard Bach: Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
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THIS IS WHY WE ARE HERE Frank Smith: Thought flows in terms of stories — stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories.
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A GERM THAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO PASS Marva Collins: Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
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CAN YOU HEAR THE NOISE Horace Mann: A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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PSYCHOLOGY Carol Buchner: They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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PLANTING IS FUN AND NOURISHING Buddhist Proverb: If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.
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SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH Josef Albers: Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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LOOK, LOOK, LOOK Confucius: Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three .
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IT IS FOR YOU TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR Kahlil Gibran: The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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A TRUELY GREAT, ENDLESS CIRCLE Henry B. Adams: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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YOU, TOO, CAN BECOME GREAT Mark Twain: 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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WORDS TO LIVE BY Plato: Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.