Quotes

"Plan to be better tomorrow than today, but don't ever plan to be finished."

~Carol Ann Tomlinson

Motivation Quote

As Kroll (1992) pointed out, “Because inquiry is an affair of the heart as well as the mind, students must feel connected to a topic if they are going to inquire deeply and honestly into it” (p. 11).

Kroll, B.M. (1992). Teaching hearts and minds: College students reflect on the Vietnam war in literature. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Quotes

“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

-Stephen Jay Gould

The Beginning

"It is how you begin that is the most important."

~ Plato

Words of Wisdom

“However, on better days, days when I had designed lessons that channeled rather than suppressed their fitful energy, or when I found some way to coax them to share their real stories—I  glimpsed the classroom life that was meant to be.”

P 22 Bill Bigelow The New Teacher Book

"The starting point for what's worth fighting for is not system change, not change in others around us, but change in ourselves."

Michael Fullan

Reading Quotes

"We read to know we are not alone." -C.S. Lewis

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."- Oh! The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Adventures in Substitute Teaching

I am sitting on the edge of a new journey, anxiously awaiting that sign to set off to a brave new world (aka a call from the substitute calling system).  So, I didn't attain that ever illusive, but always so enticing option of getting my own classroom for my first year of teaching.  I had to take the long road--substituting.  Which isn't a bad alternative considering I still get to teach, I will (hopefully) make decent pay, and I will get to glean all the best ideas from the classes I visit.


As I set off on this journey I take this quote with me as inspiration:


"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen' in small things they show themselves as they are."
~Nicholas Chamfort


Hopefully as a substitute I will be appreciated for who I am.

Gandhi

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."
                                                                                     ~Gandhi

Einstein Quote

"Peace Cannot be kept by force.  It can only be achieved by understanding."
                                                                            ~Einstein

Yeats Quote

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."

                                                        ~Yeats

Math and Literacy Quote

"Words and numbers are of equal value,
for, in the cloak of knowledge,
one is warp and the other woof.
It is no more important to count the sands
Then it is to name the stars."

The Phantom Toolbooth by Norton Juster

Quote

"If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children."

~Gandhi

Quote

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi