"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
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June 30, 2000
"I will never let my schooling get in the way of my education." --- Mark Twain --- Submitted by M. VanCleve --- Kentucky June 28, 2000 "Children are the messages we will send to a time we will never see." --- Neil Postman --- Submitted by S. Madera --- California June 26, 2000 "Some of us learn by reading, by writing, and by doing, But as a teacher I learn more from children Than what I could ever learn from a text book or a manual on teaching." --- Copyright © 2000 Kelly Wilson June 23, 2000 "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, He will become what he ought to be and could be." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by S. Graham --- Nova Scotia, Canada June 21, 2000 "Blessed are those who teach." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Nadine Ivy --- Alabama June 19, 2000 "Concentration is the best key to open the treasure house of knowledge!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pramod Pillai --- Gujarath, India June 16, 2000 "Education is not received. It is achieved." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Stacey Lee June 14, 2000 "If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." --- Thomas Jefferson June 12, 2000 "Many Teach, Few Inspire." --- Author Unknown June 7, 2000 "Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." --- Author Unknown June 5, 2000 "To make someone smart, you can't make them know the answers, But you have to teach them to ask the right questions." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Diana P., Age 14 --- Virginia June 2, 2000 "The distance from failure to success Is never been longer than the bridge of hope." --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Allen Guinto --- Pampanga, Philippines May 31, 2000 "You can't take someone to knowledge and make them think." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jewel Diamond Taylor --- California May 29, 2000 "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." --- Helen Keller May 26, 2000 "Teachers open the door, but the students enter by themselves." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida May 24, 2000 "Thinking is the hardest work we do, Which is why so few people ever do it." --- Copyright © 2000 Ephraim Makwatse --- South Africa May 22, 2000 "Change does not necessarily assure progress, But progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, For education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." --- Henry Steele Commager --- Submitted by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida May 19, 2000 "I feel that education will give me knowledge, But experience will give me wisdom." --- Copyright © 2000 Jill Schaffer --- Tennessee May 17, 2000 "We are here to learn, not to be right!" --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kayla V., Age 11 --- Washington May 15, 2000 "We can't solve problems By using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." --- Albert Einstein May 12, 2000 "The business of teaching is carried forward...because some individuals of extraordinary vitality and strength of personality engage in it and the fire that helps to guide them kindles the spirits of the young people whose lives they touch." --- Woodrow Wilson May 10, 2000 "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books; A mysterious order it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." --- Albert Einstein --- Sent in by Brent Latam --- Ontario, Canada May 8, 2000 "A remarkable gift, creativity. No other aspect of the human psyche is as powerful. It can exist unused for many years and then, with the right encouragement, creativity can be expressed, improving our lives and the lives of everyone around us." --- C. Diane Ealy --- Sent in by Brian McKay -- Manitoba, Canada May 5, 2000 "You can't rewrite yesterday's news, But you can influence what you read tomorrow morning." --- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kristen Hogan --- Canada May 1, 2000 "The philosophy of the school room in one generation Will be the philosophy of government in the next." --- Abraham Lincoln --- Sent in by Lloyd Francis |