EDUCATIONAL QUOTES

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bulletThe world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."  Saint Augustine
bullet"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." Sammuel Johnson
bullet"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."   William Butler Yeats
bullet"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." African Proverb
bullet"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember.  Involve ne and I'll understand."  Confucius
bullet"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and has changed."   Carl Rogers
bullet"Children have never been good at listening to the elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."  James Baldwin
bullet"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." Unknown
bullet"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
bullet"Brain. n. An apparatus with which we think that we think."  Ambrose Bierce
bullet"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." Willa A. Foster
bullet"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." Ronald Osborn
bullet"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." Mary McLeod Bethune
bullet"My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed."  Anne Sullivan
bullet"The important thing is not to stop questioning."  Albert Einstein
bullet"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry B. Adams
bullet"You may not be responsible for your heritage, but you are responsible for your future."
bullet"Keep trying, its only from the valley, that the mountains seem high."
bullet"Failure is not the worst thing in the world.  The very worst is not to try."
bullet"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."
bullet"It's not true that nice guys finish last.  Nice guys are winners before the game even  starts."
bullet"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yates
bullet"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" Jean- Jacques Rousseau
bullet"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."  Marcel Proust
bulletThe mind is a pattern-seeking device.  Children who have been taught pattern will continue to hunt for solutions."
bulletIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein
bullet"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."   George Bernard Shaw
bullet"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."Oliver Wendell Holmes
bullet"The time is always right to do what is right."  Martin Luther King, Jr.
bullet   "An eye for an eye makes the world blind." Ghandi.
bullet"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison 
bullet"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." Aesop
 

Copyright c 1999 by P.M. Leggett