Teaching Quotes - Page 4

• Excellence is the new forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Forever, Excellence

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• If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Learning, Risk, Want

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  [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Motivational, Family, Education

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Believe, Learning

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Mindfulness, Realization

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Struggle, Learning, People

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Able, Today

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• Talent comes with an individual name tag.

  Charles Handy

  Learning, Names, Tag

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.62, Harvard Business Press

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• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Importance

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• The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Hard Work, Learning, Ideas

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

  Myron Tribus

  Learning, Joy, Quality

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Learning, Men, Action

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

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• Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Understanding, Depth

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.50, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Learning, Vocabulary, Inquiry

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, School, Learning

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Two, Attention

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inquiry, Discussion, University

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• Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

  Antonio Machado

  Learning, Path, Life Is

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• The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Mind, Pilots

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• The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Learning, Resilience, Said

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Learning, Today, Plans

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.10, ASCD

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• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Learning, Fields

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• Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

  Harry Crews

  Real, Messy, Ought

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• It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

  Ovid

  Enemy, Taught

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

  Mao Zedong

  Food, Learning, Want

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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