“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
Communication
October 27, 2015 by
“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
October 26, 2015 by
“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
October 25, 2015 by
“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
October 24, 2015 by
“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
October 23, 2015 by
“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
Leadership
October 22, 2015 by
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
― Harry S. Truman
Gratitude
October 21, 2015 by
“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
Toni Morrison
Teaching
October 19, 2015 by
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
William Glasser
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill