The document contains a collection of quotations related to teaching, learning, and technology compiled by Diana Dell. Some of the key quotes discuss how technology can both enhance and hinder learning, the importance of questioning and understanding over memorization, and how the role of a teacher is to facilitate learning and discovery within students rather than simply filling them with information.
The document discusses self-discovery and provides tips to help discover your purpose. It defines self and self-discovery as identifying your unique identity and needs. Some key things to discover about yourself include your purpose in life, what gives you a sense of direction and focus, and how to better yourself. The document provides 6 tips for self-discovery, which include accepting yourself, knowing that perfection is unrealistic, accepting all parts of yourself, being selfish with your time, and connecting to your core values. Discovering your self is said to be the beginning of wisdom and can help you change the world.
Short stories for kids are a precious great resource in the world of literature. In a short story, authors share a well developed story of significance, often leaving its indelible mark on those who read them.
From fable and fairy tale to myth, mystery, and everything in-between, there should always be a collection of short stories for kids ready to read.
Here are 10 of our favorite short stories for kids:
The document contains a collection of quotes and thoughts related to success, failure, preparation, persistence, imagination, courage, adaptability, present vs future, knowledge, happiness, and life. Some of the key ideas expressed are that success requires preparation and attitude over aptitude, failure comes from lack of persistence, imagination is more important than knowledge, and our greatest glory lies in rising after we fall.
The Lion and the Rabbit - A Story with a Moral OH TEIK BIN
A Presentation of a children's story with good moral lessons.
The texts are in English. For some animation effects, download the PowerPoint ppt.
For the Video with narration, explanation and comments in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epmhlOzenbU
The document discusses the concept of gratitude through various quotes and proverbs. It begins with definitions of gratitude as a feeling of thankfulness for what others have done or the natural beauty in the world. It then shares a story of a poor boy who was given milk by a woman, and years later when she fell ill, the doctor who treated her recognized her and paid her medical bill in full for that one act of kindness. The rest of the document shares quotes and sayings about gratitude from various spiritual and religious leaders from around the world, emphasizing being thankful for what you have.
This chapter discusses the power of self-belief and how it relates to success. It explores the meaning of success and values, and how beliefs shape our behavior and choices. Negative beliefs can harm our lives, while positive beliefs empower us. The document provides ways to change limiting beliefs, such as using positive self-talk, and embracing the seven beliefs of successful people. It concludes by discussing positive psychology and how improving self-beliefs through self-acceptance can boost confidence.
This 3 slide PowerPoint presentation encourages the audience not to give up when facing difficulties. Each slide stresses that even when feeling sad, lonely, defeated, or lost, one should maintain hope and faith that tomorrow can bring joy, love, victory, and that God is walking with you. Mistakes are part of learning and the people who loved you will continue to do so. Keep your eyes on your hopes and dreams to find the strength and faith to continue down your path.
The document discusses self-discovery and provides tips to help discover your purpose. It defines self and self-discovery as identifying your unique identity and needs. Some key things to discover about yourself include your purpose in life, what gives you a sense of direction and focus, and how to better yourself. The document provides 6 tips for self-discovery, which include accepting yourself, knowing that perfection is unrealistic, accepting all parts of yourself, being selfish with your time, and connecting to your core values. Discovering your self is said to be the beginning of wisdom and can help you change the world.
Short stories for kids are a precious great resource in the world of literature. In a short story, authors share a well developed story of significance, often leaving its indelible mark on those who read them.
From fable and fairy tale to myth, mystery, and everything in-between, there should always be a collection of short stories for kids ready to read.
Here are 10 of our favorite short stories for kids:
The document contains a collection of quotes and thoughts related to success, failure, preparation, persistence, imagination, courage, adaptability, present vs future, knowledge, happiness, and life. Some of the key ideas expressed are that success requires preparation and attitude over aptitude, failure comes from lack of persistence, imagination is more important than knowledge, and our greatest glory lies in rising after we fall.
The Lion and the Rabbit - A Story with a Moral OH TEIK BIN
A Presentation of a children's story with good moral lessons.
The texts are in English. For some animation effects, download the PowerPoint ppt.
For the Video with narration, explanation and comments in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epmhlOzenbU
The document discusses the concept of gratitude through various quotes and proverbs. It begins with definitions of gratitude as a feeling of thankfulness for what others have done or the natural beauty in the world. It then shares a story of a poor boy who was given milk by a woman, and years later when she fell ill, the doctor who treated her recognized her and paid her medical bill in full for that one act of kindness. The rest of the document shares quotes and sayings about gratitude from various spiritual and religious leaders from around the world, emphasizing being thankful for what you have.
This chapter discusses the power of self-belief and how it relates to success. It explores the meaning of success and values, and how beliefs shape our behavior and choices. Negative beliefs can harm our lives, while positive beliefs empower us. The document provides ways to change limiting beliefs, such as using positive self-talk, and embracing the seven beliefs of successful people. It concludes by discussing positive psychology and how improving self-beliefs through self-acceptance can boost confidence.
This 3 slide PowerPoint presentation encourages the audience not to give up when facing difficulties. Each slide stresses that even when feeling sad, lonely, defeated, or lost, one should maintain hope and faith that tomorrow can bring joy, love, victory, and that God is walking with you. Mistakes are part of learning and the people who loved you will continue to do so. Keep your eyes on your hopes and dreams to find the strength and faith to continue down your path.
This document outlines key factors that lead to success based on research and interviews with successful people. It summarizes that passion, hard work, focus, pushing yourself through challenges, continuously improving skills, serving others with valuable ideas or products, and persisting through criticism and adversity are the 8 secrets common to successful people and billionaires. The document uses quotes from influential figures like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Winston Churchill to support each factor and encourage continuous self-improvement, passion-driven work, and persisting through difficulties to achieve success over time.
Hill invested 20 years of his life interviewing more than 16,000 people among the top 500 millionaires and most important people in the world and those ones who had also failed.
This document discusses various listening activities that can be used in the classroom to engage students and improve their listening comprehension. It describes activities like "listen and do" where students listen and then move or act based on the instructions. Other activities mentioned include listening for specific words or information, filling in missing details, answering questions after listening to a passage, and listening to and telling stories. The document emphasizes that listening activities should be appropriately leveled for students' ages and attention spans, and should include movement, interaction and variety to keep students engaged while developing their listening skills.
The document discusses different views on the purpose of life, including to contribute to making things better, to be useful and live well, and to experience life to the fullest. It then provides examples of how to fulfill each purpose, such as volunteering, helping others, and living adventurously. The document offers questions and suggestions to help readers find their own purpose in life with the help of friends, family, and community organizations, and encourages taking action once a purpose is discovered.
Sitting for long periods of time can negatively impact health. Research shows that each additional hour of TV watched per day correlates to an 11% higher risk of death. The document encourages reducing sitting time and becoming more active to improve well-being.
The document outlines seven habits of highly successful students: 1) be proactive in your education by taking charge and using all available resources, 2) begin with the end in mind by investigating career options and ensuring your course of study aligns with your goals, and 3) put first things first by setting priorities and managing your time effectively. It also discusses avoiding competition, communicating well, joining a diverse learning community, and taking care of your physical and emotional health.
This document introduces the Wheel of Life assessment tool to help users improve satisfaction across 8 key areas of life: financial, mental/intellectual, friends/family, personal development, work/career, health, relationships, and community. It provides instructions for using the tool, including questions to consider for each life area and rating satisfaction on a scale of 0-10. The tool is then used to identify areas for improvement, set goals, and track progress over time to work towards better life-work balance and satisfaction.
The document outlines an 11-lesson course on the "Law of Success" presented by Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari. Each lesson teaches a different principle for achieving success and fulfilling one's potential, such as having a definite purpose, developing self-confidence, taking initiative, using imagination, and practicing habits like cooperation, concentration, and performing more service than paid for. The overarching message is to "arise, awake" by realizing one's true nature and potential, to "stop not" until goals are reached through persistence and perseverance.
This document discusses lies and their consequences. It defines different types of lies like lies by omission and white lies. It also examines how to tell if someone is lying and lists some common lies people tell like "I'm fine" or "That was my last piece of gum." The document warns that lies may hurt for a little while but the truth always comes out, and advises that the truth is always true even if it isn't said. It uses examples from Bill Clinton to illustrate lies and their consequences.
The document outlines the Programme of Inquiry for different grade levels in the Primary Years Programme (PYP). It describes the central ideas, key concepts, related concepts, and lines of inquiry that structure transdisciplinary units of inquiry. The units cover six transdisciplinary themes: Who We Are, Where We Are in Place and Time, How We Express Ourselves, How the World Works, How We Organize Ourselves, and Sharing the Planet. For each grade level, the document lists the specific topics studied within each transdisciplinary theme.
The ppt talks about the eight traits that are heart of the success, which the speaker has picked after careful affirmation of the same by millions of diverse people.
How has the meaning of friendship changed with the huge advancements in technology and social media? This presentation looks deeper into this idea and some of the dangers associated with it.
The document discusses the seven habits of effective people as outlined by Stephen Covey. It describes each of the seven habits: 1) be proactive, 2) begin with the end in mind, 3) put first things first, 4) think win-win, 5) seek first to understand then be understood, 6) synergy, and 7) sharpen the saw. The habits move from dependency to independence to interdependence and build upon each other to help people become more effective.
A Power Point Presentation of a story for little children. There is a moral to the story. A simple evaluation exercise follows. For the animation effects of the animals, download the Slide Presentation.
This document promotes a workshop called "Celebrate YOU!" about self-love and self-care. It defines self-love as unconditional compassion for oneself, flaws and all. Self-care is described as taking deliberate time to replenish one's mind, body and soul, not out of selfishness but to refresh one's spirit. The workshop teaches that self-love and self-care are important not just because you deserve them, but because you need them to enrich your life. It is a daily practice that the workshop, held on March 29th, will help people learn.
Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. Here is a formula for fear: Inaction+ Past false evidence + Future catastrophic thinking + Snowball of thoughts and feelings = FEAR ?
Nick Vujicic-No arms, No legs, No worries...Mukesh Bhavsar
Nicholas Vujicic is a motivational speaker born in 1982 in Australia without limbs. He struggled with depression as a child but found purpose through his Christian faith. Despite having no arms or legs, he lives independently and has traveled to over 24 countries to share his story of overcoming obstacles through a positive attitude.
This document provides information about assemblies that focus on values-based education. It includes summaries of assemblies that have been conducted on various values like love, compassion, respect, and kindness. The document explains that the assemblies are free for member schools to use and adapt based on their context. It also contains suggestions for accompanying activities and discussions that can be explored in classes after the initial assembly.
Jack and his mother were running out of food after his father passed away. Jack's mother sent him to sell their cow Molly in town. On the way, Jack met a man who traded magic beans for the cow. Jack's mother was upset by the trade. The next morning, a beanstalk grew from the beans. Jack climbed it and found a giant's house with a golden goose and harp, which he took. The giant discovered Jack and threatened to take the items back.
This document contains quotes from various authors on the art of teaching. The quotes discuss different aspects of teaching, including:
- A good teacher inspires students to learn and challenges them.
- The impact and influence of a teacher may not be seen for many years.
- Teaching skills all other professions.
- A teacher's job is very challenging as they must meet the needs of many students at once.
- What kind of person a teacher is can be more important than what they teach.
Quotes On Academia To Start A Class Discussion.pdfnoblex1
Greetings! If read in sequence the following quotes are generally arranged to be a conversation across the ages on a topic. Use for your syllabi, your exams, to start a class discussion, or to enliven your day.
The Nature of Education
Edith Hamilton
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is being educated.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Georg Hegel, 1821
Education is the art of making man ethical.
John Dewey
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
James Mason Wood
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: Education for living and educating for making a living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
Friedrich Schlegel, 1798
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Joseph Addison, 1711
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Vachel Lindsay
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
Unknown
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Berenson Bernard
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Anonymous
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Will Durant
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The Relationship between Teaching & Learning
Seneca
While we teach, we learn.
Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Japanese Proverb
To teach is to learn.
Aristotle
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Elbert Hubbard in biographical sketch of Friedrich Froebel
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is a learner.
Soren Kierkegaard
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
On Being a Teacher
Albert Einstein
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Stephen Brookfield
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/quotes-on-academia-to-start-a-class-discussion/
This document outlines key factors that lead to success based on research and interviews with successful people. It summarizes that passion, hard work, focus, pushing yourself through challenges, continuously improving skills, serving others with valuable ideas or products, and persisting through criticism and adversity are the 8 secrets common to successful people and billionaires. The document uses quotes from influential figures like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Winston Churchill to support each factor and encourage continuous self-improvement, passion-driven work, and persisting through difficulties to achieve success over time.
Hill invested 20 years of his life interviewing more than 16,000 people among the top 500 millionaires and most important people in the world and those ones who had also failed.
This document discusses various listening activities that can be used in the classroom to engage students and improve their listening comprehension. It describes activities like "listen and do" where students listen and then move or act based on the instructions. Other activities mentioned include listening for specific words or information, filling in missing details, answering questions after listening to a passage, and listening to and telling stories. The document emphasizes that listening activities should be appropriately leveled for students' ages and attention spans, and should include movement, interaction and variety to keep students engaged while developing their listening skills.
The document discusses different views on the purpose of life, including to contribute to making things better, to be useful and live well, and to experience life to the fullest. It then provides examples of how to fulfill each purpose, such as volunteering, helping others, and living adventurously. The document offers questions and suggestions to help readers find their own purpose in life with the help of friends, family, and community organizations, and encourages taking action once a purpose is discovered.
Sitting for long periods of time can negatively impact health. Research shows that each additional hour of TV watched per day correlates to an 11% higher risk of death. The document encourages reducing sitting time and becoming more active to improve well-being.
The document outlines seven habits of highly successful students: 1) be proactive in your education by taking charge and using all available resources, 2) begin with the end in mind by investigating career options and ensuring your course of study aligns with your goals, and 3) put first things first by setting priorities and managing your time effectively. It also discusses avoiding competition, communicating well, joining a diverse learning community, and taking care of your physical and emotional health.
This document introduces the Wheel of Life assessment tool to help users improve satisfaction across 8 key areas of life: financial, mental/intellectual, friends/family, personal development, work/career, health, relationships, and community. It provides instructions for using the tool, including questions to consider for each life area and rating satisfaction on a scale of 0-10. The tool is then used to identify areas for improvement, set goals, and track progress over time to work towards better life-work balance and satisfaction.
The document outlines an 11-lesson course on the "Law of Success" presented by Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari. Each lesson teaches a different principle for achieving success and fulfilling one's potential, such as having a definite purpose, developing self-confidence, taking initiative, using imagination, and practicing habits like cooperation, concentration, and performing more service than paid for. The overarching message is to "arise, awake" by realizing one's true nature and potential, to "stop not" until goals are reached through persistence and perseverance.
This document discusses lies and their consequences. It defines different types of lies like lies by omission and white lies. It also examines how to tell if someone is lying and lists some common lies people tell like "I'm fine" or "That was my last piece of gum." The document warns that lies may hurt for a little while but the truth always comes out, and advises that the truth is always true even if it isn't said. It uses examples from Bill Clinton to illustrate lies and their consequences.
The document outlines the Programme of Inquiry for different grade levels in the Primary Years Programme (PYP). It describes the central ideas, key concepts, related concepts, and lines of inquiry that structure transdisciplinary units of inquiry. The units cover six transdisciplinary themes: Who We Are, Where We Are in Place and Time, How We Express Ourselves, How the World Works, How We Organize Ourselves, and Sharing the Planet. For each grade level, the document lists the specific topics studied within each transdisciplinary theme.
The ppt talks about the eight traits that are heart of the success, which the speaker has picked after careful affirmation of the same by millions of diverse people.
How has the meaning of friendship changed with the huge advancements in technology and social media? This presentation looks deeper into this idea and some of the dangers associated with it.
The document discusses the seven habits of effective people as outlined by Stephen Covey. It describes each of the seven habits: 1) be proactive, 2) begin with the end in mind, 3) put first things first, 4) think win-win, 5) seek first to understand then be understood, 6) synergy, and 7) sharpen the saw. The habits move from dependency to independence to interdependence and build upon each other to help people become more effective.
A Power Point Presentation of a story for little children. There is a moral to the story. A simple evaluation exercise follows. For the animation effects of the animals, download the Slide Presentation.
This document promotes a workshop called "Celebrate YOU!" about self-love and self-care. It defines self-love as unconditional compassion for oneself, flaws and all. Self-care is described as taking deliberate time to replenish one's mind, body and soul, not out of selfishness but to refresh one's spirit. The workshop teaches that self-love and self-care are important not just because you deserve them, but because you need them to enrich your life. It is a daily practice that the workshop, held on March 29th, will help people learn.
Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. Here is a formula for fear: Inaction+ Past false evidence + Future catastrophic thinking + Snowball of thoughts and feelings = FEAR ?
Nick Vujicic-No arms, No legs, No worries...Mukesh Bhavsar
Nicholas Vujicic is a motivational speaker born in 1982 in Australia without limbs. He struggled with depression as a child but found purpose through his Christian faith. Despite having no arms or legs, he lives independently and has traveled to over 24 countries to share his story of overcoming obstacles through a positive attitude.
This document provides information about assemblies that focus on values-based education. It includes summaries of assemblies that have been conducted on various values like love, compassion, respect, and kindness. The document explains that the assemblies are free for member schools to use and adapt based on their context. It also contains suggestions for accompanying activities and discussions that can be explored in classes after the initial assembly.
Jack and his mother were running out of food after his father passed away. Jack's mother sent him to sell their cow Molly in town. On the way, Jack met a man who traded magic beans for the cow. Jack's mother was upset by the trade. The next morning, a beanstalk grew from the beans. Jack climbed it and found a giant's house with a golden goose and harp, which he took. The giant discovered Jack and threatened to take the items back.
This document contains quotes from various authors on the art of teaching. The quotes discuss different aspects of teaching, including:
- A good teacher inspires students to learn and challenges them.
- The impact and influence of a teacher may not be seen for many years.
- Teaching skills all other professions.
- A teacher's job is very challenging as they must meet the needs of many students at once.
- What kind of person a teacher is can be more important than what they teach.
Quotes On Academia To Start A Class Discussion.pdfnoblex1
Greetings! If read in sequence the following quotes are generally arranged to be a conversation across the ages on a topic. Use for your syllabi, your exams, to start a class discussion, or to enliven your day.
The Nature of Education
Edith Hamilton
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is being educated.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Georg Hegel, 1821
Education is the art of making man ethical.
John Dewey
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
James Mason Wood
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: Education for living and educating for making a living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
Friedrich Schlegel, 1798
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Joseph Addison, 1711
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Vachel Lindsay
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
Unknown
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Berenson Bernard
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Anonymous
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Will Durant
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The Relationship between Teaching & Learning
Seneca
While we teach, we learn.
Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Japanese Proverb
To teach is to learn.
Aristotle
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Elbert Hubbard in biographical sketch of Friedrich Froebel
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is a learner.
Soren Kierkegaard
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
On Being a Teacher
Albert Einstein
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Stephen Brookfield
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/quotes-on-academia-to-start-a-class-discussion/
This document discusses principles and philosophies of 21st century teaching and learning. It provides quotes emphasizing that students learn best through discovery and active participation rather than passive listening. Teachers should facilitate learning by providing guidance and inspiration, not direct instruction, and aim to make themselves gradually unnecessary through empowering self-directed learning in students. An education system focused on developing lifelong learners will have greater long-term impact than one oriented solely around short-term outcomes.
The document contains several quotes about the art of teaching from various authors. Many of the quotes emphasize that teaching is about inspiring students and helping them learn and grow, not just imparting facts. They also highlight that teaching requires patience, dedication to students' learning, and the ability to motivate and challenge students. Teaching is described as an important profession that impacts students and society in many lasting ways.
The document contains several quotes about the art of teaching from various authors. Many of the quotes emphasize that teaching is about inspiring students and helping them learn and grow, not just imparting facts. They also highlight that teaching requires patience, dedication to students' learning, and the ability to motivate and challenge students. Teaching is described as an important profession that impacts students and society in many lasting ways.
This document contains a collection of quotes about education from various sources. Some key ideas expressed are:
- Education helps develop children's minds and characters rather than just imparting information.
- Good teachers inspire curiosity and passion for learning in students rather than just imparting facts.
- Learning should be an engaging process that teaches lessons, rather than just a series of tests.
This document contains a collection of inspirational quotes about education from various notable figures such as Malcolm X, Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. The quotes discuss topics like the importance of education in shaping the future, the role of teachers in providing an environment for learning rather than direct instruction, learning as a lifelong process, and education's ability to empower change in the world.
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.
This document contains 18 quotations about learning from various notable figures such as Socrates, Winston Churchill, Goethe, John Powell, Galileo Galilei, Chickering and Gamson, Gus Tuberville, Carl Rogers, Elizabeth II, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Einstein, Kahlil Gibran, Edward Gibbon, Edward Scannell, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau. The quotes discuss different aspects of learning including that learning requires active participation, self-discovery, motivation, proper training, and openness to being taught by others.
The document contains several quotes about teaching from various sources. Some key ideas expressed are:
- Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life (Chinese proverb)
- A teacher affects eternity through their influence on students (Henry Adams)
- The art of teaching is assisting discovery and inspiring students to learn (Mark Van Doren and others)
- The role of a teacher is to awaken curiosity and inspire students, not just impart knowledge (Robert H. Shaffer and others)
This document contains quotes from various educators about the importance and power of education. It discusses how education empowers students, transforms lives, and helps create new thinkers capable of doing things in new ways. The quotes emphasize that effective teachers inspire students, trust them with responsibility, and see their full potential. Overall, the document celebrates education and the role of teachers in empowering students.
The document contains a collection of quotes from various individuals about education and learning. It emphasizes that education is a lifelong process that involves cultivating curiosity, thinking for oneself, and learning in multiple ways. Several quotes note that true education happens through experience and problem-solving rather than just memorizing answers provided by others.
The document contains a collection of quotes and sayings about success, leadership, education, relationships, and personal growth. Some of the key ideas expressed are that we should dream big and continuously improve ourselves, come together to think and act as one, and that problems contain their own solutions. It also emphasizes building relationships through kindness, choosing a life of service to others, and persevering through challenges to make progress.
Slideshow of quotes to prompt thinking about curiosity and to encourage teachers to always be mindful to nurture that part of the students they teach. Also, created as a "thank you" to the colleagues I have had the wonderful privilege of working alongside for the past 8 years.
This document contains several quotes about education and parenting. It emphasizes that children should feel valued, respected, and supported to develop their full potential. Teachers play an important role in nurturing students and helping them learn, while parents can best help their children by spending quality time with them, building their self-esteem, and allowing them to develop into independent individuals.
Candace Gamble presented on motivating future educators with quotes about teaching and learning. The quotes emphasize that teachers have lifelong influence on students, the importance of inspiring students to learn rather than just filling them with information, and that involving students actively in their education leads to the deepest learning. The presentation encourages viewing teaching as igniting students' curiosity and planting seeds of knowledge.
The document contains over 50 quotes about education from various notable figures such as Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, Confucius, and Albert Einstein. The quotes cover a wide range of topics including the importance of inspiring children's natural curiosity, allowing children to learn through their own experiences, adapting teaching methods to individual students' needs, and the role of teachers in developing students' character and ability to think critically.
This document provides a collection of knowledge quotes from various sources on the topics of knowledge, wisdom, learning, education, and the value of knowledge. Some of the quotes highlight that knowledge is power, ignorance is a curse, and that sharing knowledge benefits both the giver and receiver. Other quotes reference how knowledge comes from learning and experience, and that true knowledge involves understanding rather than just facts or information. The full document contains over 50 knowledge quotes attributed to different individuals.
4. It is possible to store the mind with millions of facts and still be entirely uneducated. ~Alec Bourne
5. Fredrick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path. ~Carl Sagan
6. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. ~ Confucius
7. We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ~Galileo Galilei
8. The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ Kahlil Gibran
9. The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves. ~ Newton Diehl Baker
10. One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. ~ Sophocles
11. I learn by going where I have to go. ~ Theodore Roethke
12. I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
13. If you study to remember, you will forget, but if you study to understand, you will remember. ~Unknown
14. The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. ~Unknown
15. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~Lord Chesterfield
16. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats
17. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. ~B.B. King
18. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. ~James Baldwin
19. Education beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ~Horace Mann
20. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. ~Aristotle
21. Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
22. If you can read this, thank a teacher. ~Anonymous
23. We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed... ~Lawrence Clark Powell
25. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. ~Latin proverb
26. Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginot
27. One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung
28. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best. ~Edmund Burke
29. There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher’. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. ~Pat Conroy
30. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~Chinese proverb
32. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
33. As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child. ~ Albert Shanker
34. To be a teacher is to be forever an optimist. ~Philip Bigler
35. When you make the finding yourself – even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light – you'll never forget it. ~Carl Sagan
36. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. ~E. M. Forster
38. Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. ~Confucius
39. No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value. ~Bertrand Russell
40. Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense. ~Anonymous
41. The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; To train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. ~Tryon Edwards
42. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ~Eugene S. Wilson
47. Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. ~ Nikki Giovanni
48. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ~ Mary Kay Ash
49. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. ~ Einstein
51. The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. ~Michelangelo
52. On being asked how he had "discovered" the law of gravitation, Newton replied “by thinking on it continually." ~ Isaac Newton
53. The basis of creativity has always been a new connection. To make connections would take hours using words. Your subconscious has to use pictures. ~ William J.J. Gordon
54. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
61. For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivated. To be motivated, they must become interested. And they become interested when they are actively working on projects which they can relate to their values and goals in life. ~ Gus Tuberville, President, William Penn College
62. I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~Albert Einstein
63. The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher. ~John Holt
64. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ~ Mao Zedong
65. Change is the end result of all true learning. ~Leo F. Buscaglia
66. Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill. ~Anonymous
67. I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~Franklin P. Adams
68. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges
69. I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. ~Thomas A. Edison
70. You must do the thing you think you can not do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
71. You can not fail... unless you quit. ~ Abraham Lincoln
72. Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Ghandhi
73. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill
75. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. ~Nathaniel Branden
76. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook
77. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow. . . go to the cutting edge of your competence, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you are growing. ~Madeline Hunter
78. What we want for our children...we should want for their teachers; that schools be places of learning for both of them, and that such learning be suffused with excitement, engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and joy. ~Andy Hargraves
79. Power comes from effectively combining information with technological capacity and the creative capacities of human beings. ~Lois Gander
80. "...if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." ~John Dewey