1. As a new May 4, 2012
school year
begins...

2. To My Students:

3. "The child must know that he is a miracle, that since
the beginning of
the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the
world there
will not be, another child like him."
-- Pablo Casals

4. "To be yourself in a world that is
constantly trying to make you
something else is the greatest

5. No act of
kindness, no

6. To the Parents of My
Students:

7. Making the
decision to have
a child is
momentous.
It is to decide
forever to have
your heart
go walking
around outside
your body.
-Elizabeth
Stone

8. The best inheritance a parent can give his children is
a few minutes of his
time each day.

9. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches.
Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life
and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
-Gary Smalley

10. To
My
Colleagues
:

11. Life is no brief candle for me. It is a
sort of splendid torch which I have got
hold of for the moment and I want to
make it burn as brightly as possible

12. "It is not
what is
poured
into a
student
that counts
but what is
planted."
–Linda
Conway

13. A teacher's purpose is not to create
students in his own image, but to