Quotes by Educators - Page 37

The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.
Daisaku Ikeda
This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."It is the creed of a slave.
John Holt
Say it for me, Rainy. No other man.
Kenya Wright
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
Erich Segal
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
Mary Ellen Chase
All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Bergen Evans
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Paulo Freire
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria Montessori
I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten.
Ian Jukes
If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
Ronald A. Heifetz
Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.
Thomas Henry Huxley
I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.
Liane Holliday Willey
For many people, that war [WWII] is called the “good war” because it was fought against a regime guilty of unspeakable atrocities. But the Allies did not enter the war to save Jews from extermination. The United States entered the war after it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and, as a nation, we certainly did not do as much as we should have to save the Jewish population of Europe. The basic question is still with us: Is it right, justifiable, to intervene in a nation’s internal activities when those activities include genocide, ethnic cleansing, or some other demonstrable harm to a subset of its people?
Nel Noddings
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
Erich Segal
Each day we wake up and make myriad choices that affect others. We clothe ourselves with shirts, pants, and shoes that may have been sewn together by women working in factories fourteen-plus hours a day for a nonliving wage; we buy products manufactured in ways the destroy forests, pollute waterways, and poison the air; we wash our hair with shampoos that may have been squeezed into the eyes of conscious rabbits or force-fed to them in quantities that kill; and on and on. As Derrick Jensen has written in his book "The Culture of Make Believe", "It is possible to destroy a culture without being aware of its existence. It is possible to commit genocide or ecocide from the comfort of one's living room
Zoe Weil
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.
Johnny Rich
We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from the formless dimension of Consciousness that lies at our very center. When you look at a person, you see many differences in their unique form, and often we compare, contrast, and judge one another because of the forms that we inhabit. But if you look beyond the various qualities and characteristics of form, and look another person in the eyes, you see a Being, and it is this Being that lies beneath the surface of form that connects us all. That is why the eyes are often referred to as the gateway to the soul, because they allow us to see and feel the presence of another Being, and realize our oneness.
Joseph P. Kauffman
Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?
Ilchi Lee
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Booker T. Washington
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Katharine Sharp
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot
P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.
Paulo Freire
Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.
Douglas Wilson
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
Edith Hamilton
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
Ronald A. Heifetz
It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.
Ilchi Lee
The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
Johnny Rich
It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...
Edith Hamilton
There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.
Richard Armour
I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
William Strunk Jr.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Are you both drunk?” I headed up the ladder and propped myself on a swing with no problem. “Correction, dear brother.” Hex held one finger in the air. “We’re exquisitely tipsy.
Kenya Wright
Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you’d better do it; He always has a reason.
Charles R. Swindoll
One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how clever it aligns with a larger philosophy , or even how gratifying it is to use not necessarily how effective it is...
Doug Lemov
Life without Gratitude, is like trying to drown your sorrows by teaching them to swim.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
William Pickens
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley
I want things done right, and I was convinced that if I was in the middle of every decision, tings would be done right. My management style satisfied my need for power....By relinquishing control....I have even more power. Power is more than power OVER others. I'm not driven by a need to dominate; I'm driven to be competent.
Bob Sullo
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Richard L. Ratliff
Every man has two counties--his own and America.
Max Lerner
If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.
Ilchi Lee
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering.
Curt Gabrielson
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
Edith Hamilton
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
I don't want to die, but I don't want to be the only one to live, either. When I was sitting alone last night, I kind of figured maybe that's how Jesus felt.
Dean Briggs
Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
A.J. Gordon
Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.
Peter F Drucker
I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeon,In the round-tower of my heart,And there will I keep you forever,Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,And moulder in the dust away!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.
Joan Marques
Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.
Jon Davis
Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.
Ken Robinson
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
Charles S. Weinblatt
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...
Douglas Wilson