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Friday, April 29, 2011

The Value of Quotes

A few quotes of interest from my Twitter Favourites List. Some people just have the right words.

 The Dennys 
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.-Elbert Hubbard 

 cpaterso 
"Seek first to understand, not to be understood." (Bob Kegan)

 Chris Spence 
The 5 R's of successful classrooms: responsibility, relevance, rigor, respect and relationships

 Jerrid Kruse 
Sometimes quoting others only serves to demonstrate that you haven't actually thought about the ideas for yourself.

 Joe Bower 
The greatest evil school ever committed was to convince children to hate learning.  

 Remi Collins 
Share info so parents can help their children, share what you are doing so they can help at home. Parents want to be involved

 Mike Roberts 
Leaders must ask themselves, "Am I building people, or am I building my dream and using people to do it?"

 Tom Whitby 
W/o knowing what jobs the future holds, we need to teach kids the skills to learn. Life will be their school, if they have skills. 

 Salome Thomas-EL 
Teach children not to fear failure...but to embrace it... own it....learn from it...grow from it!

 Angela Maiers 
RT @: A great school community must develop where administrators, teachers and studnets all make valuable contribution 

 Chris Spence 
Leadership is not popularity, rank, privilege, title or money. Leadership is about influence, responsibility, results and integrity


1 comment:

  1. A lot of wisdom. I was in education career since 1957 and have seen many new techniques, education reforms, teaching fads, new models, educational gurus, etc. The main result, usually is that for a while they seem to overshadow the underlying wisdom and the central importance of the personal relationship between the facilitator and the learner.
    Brock Vodden

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