Saturday, August 17, 2013

We learn

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." -- Malcom Gladwel

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats
"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- Forest Witcraft
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others." -- Tyron Edwards

Friday, August 9, 2013

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -- Mary Kay Ash
"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." -- Malcom Gladwel
"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori
"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller
"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." - Anonymous
"The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have." - Leonard Nimoy