08/31/09

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -Rabbinical Saying

08/27/09

A book is...the chariot that bears the human soul. -Emily Dickinson

08/26/09

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot

08/25/09

The good writer masters grammar in order to control his words, and meaning is his target. -Ken Macrorie

08/21/09

Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as as apprentice studies the master. -William Faulkner

08/20/09

Books may well be the only true magic. -Alice Hoffman

08/19/09

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. -Henry Ward Beecher

08/18/09

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. -John Naisbitt

08/17/09

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider. -Damon Runyon

08/14/09

We ought to think we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. -Pablo Casals

08/13/09

Life energy flows when we create, or when we help another person's creativity flower by encouraging them in some way. Think of the sense of joy and satisfaction that one can derive from the simple act of planting flowers, cooking a meal, writing a poem, solving a problem, painting a picture, dressing with flair, or doing your job to the best of your abilities. Creativity brings us life, and by using our creativity we help bring the world into being. -Joan Borysenko

08/12/09

America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day. -Mary Jean LeTendre

08/11/09

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -Thomas Huxley

08/10/09

Good teaching in any field isn't a matter of employing gimmicks and choosing from a damnfool encyclopedia of tricks to play on students, but a matter of setting up a climate friendly to learning and then challenging learners to connect their experience and ideas with those of the accepted authorities or producers. -Ken Macrorie

08/06/09

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. -John D. MacDonald

08/05/09

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind. -Thomas Carlyle

08/04/09

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

08/03/09

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. -David Brinkley