Education

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”

 

(Chinese Proverb)

Leadership

“If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”

Barbara Colorose

Relationship

“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

 

Anonymous

Teaching

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

 

Gail Goldwin

Confidence

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

Confucius

Communication

“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”

Charles F. Kettering

Teaching

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

 

John Steinbeck

Motivation

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupér

Teaching

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.”
Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

Communication

“Thought flows in terms of stories–stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.”

Frank Martin