Skillful teachers are always learning and improving their skills through collaboration with colleagues. They understand that no one knows everything and that effective teaching requires continuous growth. Teachers must be open to new ideas and acknowledge what they don't yet know.

1. FIRST THINGS FIRST.
FIRST UNDERSTAND,
THEN BE UNDERSTOOD.

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

6. Those that know, do. Those
that understand, teach.
Aristotle

7. Education is our
passport to the
future, for
tomorrow
belongs to the
people who
prepare for it
today.
Malcolm X

8. Pray for peace,
work for justice,
sing for joy

9. Winners make
things happen;
Losers let
things happen.

10. If you can’t explain it simply, you
don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

11. If we succeed in giving the love
of learning, the learning itself
is sure to follow!

12. Gratitude takes three forms:
A feeling in the heart,
An expression in words,
And a giving in return.
Arabic Proverb

13. It does not matter how
slowly you go as long
as you do not stop.

14. It is not beauty to
abruptly halt the growth
of a young mind and to
overlay it with the frame
of an imposed culture.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

15. Friends are the angels
who lift our feet when
our wings are too
battered to fly.

16. We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not
an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

17. Variety is the mother
of enjoyment.
Benjamin Disraeli

18. Go and wake
up your
luck.
Persian proverb

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

33. Education is a
progressive
discovery of
our own
ignorance.
Will Durant

34. Education is an
admirable thing, but
it is well to
remember from
time to time that
nothing that is worth
knowing can be
taught.
Oscar Wilde

35. Education's
purpose is to
replace an empty
mind with an
open one.
Malcolm Forbes

36. If A is a success in life, then A
equals x plus y plus z. Work is x;
y is play; and z is keeping your
mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

37. To live is the
rarest thing in
the world. Most
people exist,
that is all.
Oscar Wilde

38. I prefer the
company of
peasants because
they have not been
educated
sufficiently to
reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne

39. He who opens a school door,
closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

40. Education is the
key to unlock the
golden door of
freedom.
George Washington
Carver

41. In the first place,
God made idiots.
That was for
practice. Then he
made school boards.
Mark Twain

42. Men willingly
believe what
they wish.
Gaius Julius Caesar

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

53. Give people more
than they expect and
do it cheerfully.

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.

64. Words are the
voice of the heart.

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

66. Nothing is
really lost. It’s
just where it
doesn’t belong.

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.

76. The harder
we try,
the luckier
we are.

77. Words are only
painted fire; a
book is the fire
itself.
Mark Twain

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

83. When you lose,
don’t lose the
lesson.

84. We cannot
direct the
wind,
but we can
adjust the
sails.

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.”

101. Talk slowly but think
quickly.

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

110. To become
different from
what we are…
we must first have
some awareness of
what we are.
Eric Hoffer

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

117. I’d rather die
standing than
live on my knees.
Zapata

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.

120. When a subject
becomes totally
obsolete we
make it a
required course.
Peter Drucker

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.

123. The only real
failure in life is
one not learned
from.
Anthony D’Angelo

124. The only
person who is
educated is
the one who
has learned
how to learn
and change.
Carl Rogers

125. The object of education is to
prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives.

126. The roots of
education are
bitter, but the
fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

127. The only thing
that interferes
with my
learning is my
education.
Albert Einstein

128. It is error only, and
not truth, that
shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

129. There is real magic in
enthusiasm. It spells the
difference between
mediocrity &
accomplishment.

130. I never cared about
acceptance as much as I
cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson

131. Only two things are
infinite,
the universe and
human stupidity,
and I’m not sure about
the former.
Albert Einstein

132. What do we live
for if it is not to
make life less
difficult for each
other.
George Eliot

133. Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

134. Training that brings
about no change is
as effective as a
parachute that
opens on the first
bounce.

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

153. When love and
skill work together,
expect a
masterpiece.
John Ruskin

154. To keep a lamp
burning we have to
keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

155. Never
confuse
activity with
productivity.

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

160. The whole
purpose of
education is
to turn
mirrors into
windows.
Sydney J. Harris

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.

167. Good friends, good
books and a sleepy
conscience: this is
the ideal life.
Mark Twain

168. Worry looks
around,
Sorry looks back,
Faith looks up.

169. If we knew what it was we were
doing, it would not be called
research, would it?
Albert Einstein

170. Contentment
is the only
real wealth.
Alfred Nobel

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.

174. Ideas shape the
course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

175. Don't bother just to be
better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.
William Faulkner

176. Human history becomes more
and more a race between
education and catastrophe.
Herbert George Wells

177. Those
who educate children
well are more to
be honored than
parents, for these only
gave life, those the art
of living well.
Aristotle

178. Experience
teaches only
the teachable
Aldous Huxley

179. Order is the shape upon
which beauty depends.

180. New opinions are always
suspected, and usually
opposed, without any
other reason but
because they are not
already common.
John Locke

181. Where
there is
love there
is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

182. Those who cannot
change their minds
cannot change
anything.

183. Democracy is the only
system that persists
in asking the powers
that be whether they
are the powers that
ought to be.

184. Difficulty is the excuse
history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

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

193. Happy people
do a great deal
for their
friends.
Willa Cather

194. Nothing is
troublesome
that we do
willingly.
Thomas Jefferson

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

201. To the uneducated, an A is
just three sticks. A.A. Milne

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

209. Responsibility
educates.
Wendell Phillips

210. If the Romans
had been obliged
to learn Latin,
they would never
have found time
to conquer the
world.
Heinrich Heine

211. The great
difficulty in
education is to get
experience out of
ideas.
George Santayana

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

213. Some people drink
from the fountain
of knowledge,
others just gargle.
Robert Anthony

214. Certain flaws are
necessary for the
whole. It would
seem strange if
old friends
lacked certain
quirks.
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

215. Always
remember... when
life hands you
Lemons, ask for
Tequila and Salt
and call me over!

216. A liberal education
is at the heart of a
civil society, and at
the heart of a
liberal education is
the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

217. Don't part with
your illusions.
When they are gone
you may still exist,
but you have ceased
to live.
Mark Twain

218. 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 W. Gardner

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

224. It’s always too
early to quit.
N.V.Peale

225. There are no
passengers on
Spaceship Earth.
We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

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

232. Good teaching is
one-fourth
preparation and
three-fourths
pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

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.

238. In the particular lies the
universal.
James Joyce

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

243. Never trouble another for
what you can do yourself.
Thomas Jefferson

244. Be yourself; everyone
else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

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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