Quote for the Day

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. - Russell Baker

Quote for the Day

A child educated only at school is not an educated child - George Santayana

A Quote for the Day

Suffer not to teach the child, for knowledge acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Rather, find the natural bent that the child may learn. ~ Plato

A Teacher's Motto (via 365 Meditations for Teachers)

Each and every day...
Each and every child.
I have the power, the passion, the skill, and the
knowledge
to make a difference.
Each and every day...
Each and every child.

- Sandra McBrayer
1994 United States Teacher of the Year

A Quote For the Day

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new - Og Mandino

Quote for the Day

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. - Dean William R. Inge

Quote for the Day

It's not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn - Hannah More

Quote for the Day

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. - Sarah Caldwell

Quote for the Day

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance - Franklin P. Jones

QUOTE FOR THE DAY

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A Thought for your day

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy

A Quote for Your Day

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain

A Quote for your Day

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” ~ Tom Bodett

A Quote for Today

"You teach best what you most need to learn." -- Richard David Bach

A Quote for the Day (one that I found helpful in homeschooling)

"I don't entertain illness, boredom or depression. It doesn't mean I don't get them, I just don't entertain them. Live your best life right here and right now." - Dianne Reeves' mother

A Quote for the Day

Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet. - Eda LeShan

Quote for the Day

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." -- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]

Quote for the Day

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

Quote of the day

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud

I absolutely love this quote

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

- H. Jackson Brown