Builder, in regards to your quote about teaching I would like to say: as a preschool teacher I go way beyond teaching basic skills that prepare children for...
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (1840-1917) This applies especially to failures. Do we grieve...
... prepare children for entering grade school. In general, teachers who make a special effort the way Heide does are not just unusual in our education...
"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." - Alfred Sheinwold It's a telling commentary on our society...
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection...
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke, English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded...
Great quote, and amen to the hugs! (((((hugs))))) Heide (speaking as a preschool art teacher here, who gets frowned at at times for putting too much messy play...
It's very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. To say that the book which you have not opened, which you have not read, which you...
"Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions." - Gary Ryan Blair This...
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss was not just an entertaining writer. He...
"The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too...
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." - Buddhist Proverb But first you must believe that you are facing in the right...
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up...
"The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." - Bishop Mandell Creighton There it is, as succinct as it...
"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood." - Henry David Thoreau In...
"If 40 million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." - Anatole France On the face of it, this is self evident, even funny. But ask yourself...
Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every...
"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail This quote causes me to relax, secure in the...
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." - Lord George Byron Strong words, George. Yet...
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become...
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled...
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that...
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951) This simple statement by the Austrian-born British...
Congratulations, Bill. It is a very nice quote. No one can teach a teenager to learn new vocabulary. Just him can learn, reading more and more. Cheers. Sérgio...
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacFinan The most important lesson I learned in the first half century of my ...
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." - Emily Post...
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh People who do great things often consider that they are doing those ...
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder, critic...
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur...
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because...
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