Quotes

The whole art of teaching is only 'It is today we must create the world of the future.' Eleanor Roosevelt "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. -- George Evans The purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. Robert Hutchins A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry B. Adams The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach. Meladee McCarty It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." John Powell

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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." John Dewey the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. " Anatole France "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." Rabbinical Saying I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform." John Dewey "Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." Roger Lewin "Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." Marian Wright Edelman "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry B. Adams 45

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." Angela Schwindt "Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge." Ralph Waldo Emerson "To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeates

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