Quotes

This section of the blog is a compilation of quotes reflecting on education, creativity and thoughts which have enlightened, inspired, and made me think of the ways of society and my own life. They are more than simple quotes. They are realities. 

Read: ponder; reflect.

Think

Then DO


Asking for help doesn’t mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence. 

Anne Wilson Schaef

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Brigham Young

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." 

William James (1842-1910)

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Plato believes that the fundamental goal of education is not to put knowledge into people's souls but to change their desires, thereby turning them around from the pursuit of what they falsely believe to be happiness to the pursuit of true happiness."

 Plato Republic -  Book V

"In transformative learning, however, we reinterpret an old experience (or a new one) from a new set of expectations, thus giving a new meaning and perspective to the old experience."

Jack Mezirow

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

Leonardo da Vinci 

"Education is the most useful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Nelson Mandela

"It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, than to attempt to make men machines and instruments of a political benevolence."

Edmund Burke

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the U.S. of A

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the [struggle] to make the world habitable and humane"

David Orr

‎....... You want to know what I make? I make kids wonder,

I make them question.

I make them criticize.

I make them apologize and mean it.

I make them write.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful

over and over and over again until they will never misspell

either one of those words again.

I make them show all their work in math

and hide it on their final drafts in English.

I make them understand that if you’ve got this,

then you follow this,

and if someone ever tries to judge you

by what you make, you give them this.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:

Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now what about you?

Taylor Mali.