This page is simply a listing of
random great ideas that I have come across...
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1)
"Kids don't care how much
you know, until they know how much you care."
Guy Rice Doud, 1986 National Teacher
of the Year
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2) "Treat people as if they were what
they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."
Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer
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3) "When you row another person
across the river, you get there yourself."
Great Wall Restaurant Fortune Cookie,
c. 2006
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4) "No
problem."
Sr. Sferes...first said while he was
serving with General Custer at the Battle of Bull Run
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5) "I can not teach anybody
anything. I can only make them think."
Socrates, Greek Philosopher
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6) "I
am still learning " (in Italian: "Ancora
imparo ")
Michaelangelo, Italian Artist and
Sculptor
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7) "One thing I know: the only ones
among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to
serve."
Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Nobel Peace
Prize Winner (1952) and
Humanitarian
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8) "Success is not the key to
happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Nobel Peace
Prize Winner (1952) and
Humanitarian
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9) "If you love what you are doing,
you will never work another day in your life."
Michael Jordan, Basketball Superstar
(#23; Chicago Bulls!)
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10) "Example is leadership."
Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Nobel Peace
Prize Winner (1952) and
Humanitarian
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11) "Education is not preparation for
life, it is life itself."
John Dewey, American Educational
Reformer
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12) "In the end we won't remember the
words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Civil Rights
Leader and Activist
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13) "Be the change you want to see in
the world."
Mahatma Gandi, Political and
Spiritual Leader of India
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14 "What lies behind us and what lies
before us are small matters compared to what lies within
us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Writer
and Poet
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15) "I hate quotes. Tell me what you
know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American
Writer/Poet
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16) "I dwell in possibilities..."
Emily Dickinson, American Poet
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17) "Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson, American Poet
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18) "The greatest tragedy in life is
people who have sight, but no vision. You, and only you, have the power to
create vision in your life."
Helen Keller, deaf and blind American
Author, Activist, and Lecturer
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19) "I am only one, but still I am
one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. I will not refuse to
do the something I can do."
Helen Keller, deaf and blind American
Author, Activist, and Lecturer
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20) "An education that teaches you to
understand something about the world has done only half the assignment. The
other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better
place."
Johnnetta Cole, former President,
Spelman College
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21) "The key to life is to add to it!
....add something!"
Message on side of Garelick Farms
truck
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22) "An understanding heart is
everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed high enough. One looks back
with appreciation to the brilliant teacher, but with gratitude to those who
touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much raw material, but warmth
is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child."
Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist
and the founder of Analytical Pyschology
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23) "I've come to the frightening
conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom... As a teacher, I
have tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor,
hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a
crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized."
Haim Ginott in Teacher and Child
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24)
"In times of change, the learners will inherit the world, while the knowers
remain well-prepared for a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer, American Philosopher
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25) "Be nice to nerds- chances are
you'll end up working for one."
Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and CEO
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26) "I really had a lot of dreams
when I was a kid, and think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I
had a chance to read a lot."
Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and CEO
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27) "Here's to the crazy ones. The
misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in a square hole. The
ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no
respect for the status quo. You can praise them,disagree with them, quote
them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't
do is ignore them, because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They
heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race
forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty
canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never
been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While
some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are
crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
from an Apple Computer TV Commercial,
1997
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28) "Seek first to understand, then
to be understood."
Stephen Covey, "5th Habit" in: The
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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29) "Life is 10% what happens to you
and 90% how you respond to it."
Author Unknown
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30) "Don't be afraid to be amazing."
Golden Palace Fortune Cookie, c. 2007
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31) "Don't worry about the world
coming to an end today...it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Shultz, Creator of the comic
strip Peanuts
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32) "Do not follow where the path may
lead. Go instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American
Writer/Poet
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33)
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretzky, Retired Canadian
Professional Hockey Player
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34) "Whether you think you that you
can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor
Company
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35) "How beautiful it is to do
nothing, and then rest afterward."
Keelan, Sr. Sferes' Cat
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36) "There are only two ways to live
your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein, American Physicist
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37) "When spider webs unite, they can
tie up a lion."
Ethiopian Proverb
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38) "If students can't learn the way
we teach, then we must teach them the way they learn."
Carol Tomlinson, Author of many books
on Differentiated Instruction
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39) "Education's purpose is to
replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcom Forbes, American Business
Leader
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40) Humankind...be both.
Sign outside Kennebunk High School,
February 2008
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41) "It is only with the heart that
one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The
Little Prince, 1943
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42) "I teach with my heart and my
soul and not with my mouth alone."
Jaime Escalante, American Educator
who was the basis for the movie "Stand and Deliver."
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43) "If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dahlai Lama
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44) "There is a superhero inside you,
there really is. All you have to do is let it out."
Maureen Jeanson, CMH, one of my son's
coworkers at the Fletcher Fitness Center, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
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45) Kindness is the language which
the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain, American Author and
Humorist (This quote was seen on "The Kindness Center" home page...thanks,
Michael J. Chase!
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46) One can do anything, anything at all... if provided with
a passionate and gifted teacher.
Pat Conroy (b. 1945), American Writer
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47) There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is
going to be a butterfly.
Richard Buckminister Fuller, U.S. Engineer and Architect
(1895-1983)
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48) "When the learning becomes meaningful, the child will be
successful."
Student reflection in a Motivation course at University of
New England, July, 2008
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49) "People say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither
does bathing...that's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker
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50) "Whether you think you can or whether you think you
can't, you're right."
Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company
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51) "In the end, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, American Civil Rights Leader, 1929-1968
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52) "Only a life lived for others is worth living."
Albert Einstein, American Physicist
53) "Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati"
("Not for ourselves, but for the whole world were we born.")
Latin Proverb
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54) "To the world you may just be somebody...but to somebody
you may be the whole
world."
Brandi Sydner
55) "Listen to your heart and take good notes..."
Sign in the Biddeford Middle School Guidance Office
56) "Achievement and Learning are not the same thing.
Discuss."
Suggested essay topic for "Race to the Top" promoters
57) "The kids in our classroom are infinitely more
significant than the subject matter we teach."
Tara Brown, Educator/Author
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58) "Only when the last tree has died and the last river has
been poisoned & the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can not
eat money.
Jesús Beita
Costa Rica
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59) "From my point of view no one does anything embarassing.
They are who they are and everyone should respect that."
Josh Leblond, 7th Grader, Biddeford Middle School
May 2011
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60) "The best way to learn a foreign language is not to
memorize it, but absorb it."
Rosetta Stone Commercial heard on radio March 23, 2012
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61) More important than the curriculum is the spirit in
which the lesson is given."
Bertrand Russell .
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62) Self-esteem is more than a belief that you are, down
deep and on the surface, pretty awesome.
Self-esteem is also an attitude that directs your actions to
honor and support the good in others.
Capricorn Horoscope 2012 (found in Journal Tribune)
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Let me know YOUR favorite quote..email it to
me at: tsferes@biddschools.org.
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