"FOR LEADERS & TEACHERS"
DECEMBER 2003


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  • December 17, 2003
    " I want you to start a crusade in your life ...to dare to be your best."
    William Danforth


  • December 17, 2003
    " Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."
    John Dewey


  • December 17, 2003
    " Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best."
    Marva Collins


  • December 15, 2003
    " The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
    Kahlil Gibran


  • December 15, 2003
    " Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
    Dr. John G. Hibben


  • December 15, 2003
    " Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
    Walt Disney


  • December 10, 2003
    " Inside every problem are the seeds of innovative solutions."
    Reed Markham --- Submitted by B.M. --- Utah


  • December 10, 2003
    " I think and think for months and years. Ninety nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
    Albert Einstein


  • December 10, 2003
    " You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
    Albert Camus


  • December 8, 2003
    " Pursue your dreams or they will end up being events that seem to only happen in fairytales."
    Author Unknown --- Submitted by Megan P., Age 18 --- Maryland


  • December 8, 2003
    " My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
    Abraham Lincoln


  • December 8, 2003
    " I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
    Septima Poinsette Clark


  • December 3, 2003
    " Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
    William Glasser


  • December 3, 2003
    " Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them."
    Author Unknown


  • December 3, 2003
    " Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
    Ambrose Bierce


  • December 1, 2003
    " A student is born with wings, but a teacher shows them how to use them to fly."
    Copyright © 2003 Shelby Stollery


  • December 1, 2003
    " All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
    Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michaela Goad --- Dorset, United Kingdom


  • December 1, 2003
    " Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
    Henry Peter Broughan