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Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? Asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? The man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. - Daniel Amory from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/t0J782W via IFTTT

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KuD87wr via IFTTT

"Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bd5D6X7 via IFTTT

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. - Fulton J. Sheen from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/t0J782W via IFTTT

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/oC2Qvs6 via IFTTT

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/XgZ70H8 via IFTTT

"I dwell in possibility..." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/n7P3UQA via IFTTT

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/CGZSJjL via IFTTT

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! - Richard Feynman from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/gXdx6jl via IFTTT

"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GYw6Anz via IFTTT

"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/x0girlF via IFTTT

Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves, no chewing out students (unless Mr. Klamp was doing the chewing out), no chewing out teachers (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of temper (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of affection (no exceptions), no pets over one ounce or under one ton, and no singing, except in Bulgarian. I began to think Mr Klamp wouldn't be so bad.. - Polly Shulman from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/KmO1ejZ via IFTTT

"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/jwyf52W via IFTTT

When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization. - Mervyn A. King from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/KmO1ejZ via IFTTT

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Jy2vaFW via IFTTT

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. - Robertson Davies from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/9Yryh3G via IFTTT

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/H9DvXAS via IFTTT

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Z2KmJRj via IFTTT

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. - Og Mandino from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/9Yryh3G via IFTTT

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/fYOj2gm via IFTTT

"In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/7UPVKxq via IFTTT

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/fM0QH6o via IFTTT

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/G2zkMZW via IFTTT

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. - Henry Adams from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/sIKPVi1 via IFTTT

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/8CzTQIJ via IFTTT

"Fools rush in where fools have been before." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/eEpAo5I via IFTTT

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. - Donalyn Miller from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/6H4dD3j via IFTTT

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. - Bernard Branson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/6H4dD3j via IFTTT

"Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/N7ivBha via IFTTT

"We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WD52lPC via IFTTT

"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/iMeVNFl via IFTTT

"Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6ytkQDn via IFTTT

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/48vHtAR via IFTTT

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is.. An encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed. - Iyanla Vanzant from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/ZgGWUXq via IFTTT

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. - Robert Louis Stevenson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/B4OQqyv via IFTTT

Love is metaphysical gravity. - R. Buckminster Fuller from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Wb8H1gZ via IFTTT

The arts babblative and scribblative. - Robert Southey from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/DpweR2C via IFTTT

The educator has the duty of not being neutral. - Paulo Freire from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/it5daUn via IFTTT

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/HayQEF3 via IFTTT

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/pMDSGQI via IFTTT

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. - Henry Jenkins from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/it5daUn via IFTTT

"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3YSAg0e via IFTTT

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JNCl1Tm via IFTTT

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/MrOiwPH via IFTTT

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/r7lVX9M via IFTTT

"Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/H3ewDjQ via IFTTT

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/021j8LJ via IFTTT

"In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GvbezwU via IFTTT

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. - Paul W. Silver from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/nLgp6sB via IFTTT

"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/7u6PDpi via IFTTT

"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/iFfV0mH via IFTTT

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided.. - Richard M. Nixon from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/sVBTiKy via IFTTT

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. - William Lyon Phelps from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/sVBTiKy via IFTTT

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WCyrV2K via IFTTT

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Y4tGmHf via IFTTT

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. - Neal Shusterman from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/4hkz6Bq via IFTTT

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming.. Especially a wayward youth. - T.F. Hodge from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/4hkz6Bq via IFTTT

"Hitch your wagon to a star." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/A04N7Pd via IFTTT

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/AShez2l via IFTTT

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/mfPhQoR via IFTTT

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WoPXmyL via IFTTT

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store. - Taylor Mali from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/MUqRbjJ via IFTTT

"I like life. It's something to do." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/OcTgw7p via IFTTT

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5xjEprO via IFTTT

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves--and be free. - Cesar Chavez from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/bnvEqhB via IFTTT

The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it. - Tod Wodicka from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/bnvEqhB via IFTTT

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/iTysd8a via IFTTT

"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/PLht5T2 via IFTTT

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. - Ayn Rand from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/5eVRYLD via IFTTT

"How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/vQd9bwC via IFTTT

"Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/IGvqSxP via IFTTT

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3XdN4js via IFTTT

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5hHIZy0 via IFTTT

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Eb4xOY9 via IFTTT

In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. - Bill Bryson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/5eVRYLD via IFTTT

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/17vrAet via IFTTT

"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/XSYntFx via IFTTT

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/O1dfvxB via IFTTT

"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gupYCF9 via IFTTT

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school. - Victoria Kahler from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Ic7Pg4y via IFTTT

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6Sae2so via IFTTT

"Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hUsTDEu via IFTTT

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs..) - Beth Fantaskey from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/mr4hD7U via IFTTT

"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KvsqpuE via IFTTT

"Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6YtK2kJ via IFTTT

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. - C.S. Lewis from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/mr4hD7U via IFTTT

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know - Woodrow T. Wilson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/kmLeKiW via IFTTT

"Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/X1YsgHn via IFTTT

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/YmnCxkS via IFTTT

I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them. - Asa Hilliard from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/kmLeKiW via IFTTT

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/0cuARnt via IFTTT

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JEogK7X via IFTTT

"For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/mXnv6OC via IFTTT

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/K6vugfS via IFTTT

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves. - Derrick Jensen from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/9mKTPdf via IFTTT

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lTNvwRc via IFTTT

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/VLArH6t via IFTTT

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman. - Patricia Sequeira Belvel from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/wQeDsag via IFTTT

"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/BLsJD0A via IFTTT

"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/YCLp065 via IFTTT

It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it - Jacob Chanowski from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/wQeDsag via IFTTT

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it - Allan Bloom from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/KOsAivN via IFTTT

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lcGT543 via IFTTT

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/XHmKrNW via IFTTT