Quote for the day 01-12-2014
Monday, December 1st, 2014“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann
“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.” – Marva Collins
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” – Gail Godwin
“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti
“You’ve got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch onto the affirmative, don’t mess with Mr In-between” – Popular song
“You haven’t failed, until you stop trying” – Unknown
“Whenever you feel like saying ‘Yes, but….`, try saying instead ‘Yes, and….’” – Jane Revell & Susan Norman
” There two types of people; the can do and the can’t. Which are you?” – George R. Cabrera