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.

1. HARBINS ELEMENTARY VISITATION
DAY
Learning in Action

2. When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last
person on Earth to see the light--you will never forget it.
- Carl Sagan

3. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people
of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car
is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Edward De Bono

4. In an effective classroom students should not only know what
they are doing, they should also know why and how.
- Harry K. Wong

5. Few things help an individual more than
to place responsibility upon him and let
him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington

6. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

7. The principle goal of education is to create men and women who
are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what
other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget

8. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal

9. The function of education is to teach one to
think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of
true education.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

10. A mind when stretched by a
new idea never regains its
original dimensions.
- Anonymous

11. Better than a
thousand days of
diligent study is one
day with a great
teacher.
-Japanese Proverb

12. One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.
- Sophocles

13. I want teachers to remember that they are artists of human
potential. We never know where our teaching might take a
student’s imagination.- Shana Peeples

14. The silver bullet is you. Superman is
sitting in our classrooms every day and
walking our halls. No technology replaces
you.
- Josh Stumpenhorst

15. The thing that was exciting to me was the idea of a second-grade
student or first-grade student here holding one of these devices and
feeling empowered and feeling that somebody believed in them and
that they could do anything.
- Brad Montague

16. I knew that education changed my life. It transformed me. It
gave me status. It gave me confidence. It gave me a career. It
helped me to support my family, to bring my family to another
country, to be safe.
- Sakena Yacoobi

17. Dear world leaders, dear brothers and sisters. Education is not a
privilege. Education is a right. Education is peace.
- Malala Yousafzai

18. I believe education today is the next civil right,
which means you educators are at the
forefront of a critical battle of who learns
what, and how, and we have a great
opportunity with technology.
-Soledad O’Brien

19. Teachers are the reason I am alive.
They are the reason I became a
teacher. They are the reason I am
standing here today.
- John B. King, US Sec. of Education

20. Tech integration should
only enhance the teacher
and student experience,
deepen the passion.
Passion comes first.
-Kerry Gallagher

21. How we see our students is directly responsible for how they see
themselves.
- Kevin Honeycutt

22. Thank you for giving up your
time to be with us today!