“I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.”
“Life s lessons aren t always new. Often they re the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.”
“Read, re-read and un-read!”
“The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.”
“Still I walked into the snow, moving to keep warm, burning precious energy searching for an answer I couldn’t think of. I didn’t turn back, compelled to continue without the trail. I didn’t want to risk futilely backtracking. If I couldn’t find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct led me forward. In this moment of despair I was refusing to stop fighting. I asked the mountains for some guidance, the strength to get myself out of here, and pulled wild power from within myself I’d never known I’d had. I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.”
“We write to share our thoughts and our lives.”
“The first story to read is the Biblical stories.”
“It can be done. It will be done.”
“...a school s worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...”
“Life s greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.”
“Learning and seeing are more important than education.”
“Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around.”
“You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.”
“I am happy to have all the books I need to read.”
“Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.”
“Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.”
“Bruner discusses the need for teachers to understand that children should want to study for study s own sake, for learnings s sake, not for the sake of good grades or examination success. The curriculum should, in other words, be interesting. (Yes, it sounds too obvious even to say, but sometimes the emphasis on content has trumped all other considerations, including that of making learning interesting.)”