"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."



Wilson Mizner

"Absolute power corrupts; substitute teachers are corrupted absolutely."

Anonymous

"A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin."


Elizabeth Alexander, Inauguration Poem 2009


I like a lot about her poem, but for some reason that caught my ear and has become my mantra for the new year...

“…encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”

Titus 2:6-8



Man, there are quite a few Pop Warner coaches I would like to beat soundly over the head with this one...

"Students are mysterious creatures with amazing powers"


Rookie Teaching for Dummies

(I wish I'd bought stock in the Dummies series... but if I was smart enough to do that, I wouldn't need the books...)

"Intellect, emotion, and spirit depend on one another for wholeness."

"I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy."


Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach




One of my goals in life is to one day be able to say that, and know exactly what it feels like...

"The man who does not read good books is no better
than the man who can't."

— Mark Twain


"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables



thank you!

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”


~Aristotle

"I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand."

Ancient Proverb

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."


John F. Kennedy

"Many people go far in life because someone else thought they would."


John Maxwell

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."


Lisa T. Shepherd



"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."


Pete Seeger



borrowed without asking, but with the best of intentions, from:
http://doihavetocallitablog.blogspot.com/

"Sometimes, paper is the only thing that will listen."


on the wall in Ms. B___'s 7th grade class