Teaching: We’re not in it for the income.
We’re in it for the outcome.
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Teaching: We’re not in it for the income.
We’re in it for the outcome.
Author unknown
April 12, 2013 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school...Albert Einstein
February 19, 2013 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Insightful observation...
Today’s students are not the students we were trained to teach. Ian Jukes
November 26, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing either your temper or self-confidence...Robert Frost
November 06, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for 9 months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job...D. Quinn
September 27, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn… Alvin Toffler
July 26, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'...Dan Rather
June 14, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
June 04, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects…Will Rogers
May 11, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives...Robert Maynard Hutchins
April 11, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it...William Haley
March 27, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Education should be exercise; it has become massage...Martin H. Fischer
March 18, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know…Daniel J. Boorstin
March 02, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners. It is in making winners out of ordinary people…K. Patricia Cross
February 21, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants...John W. Gardner
January 27, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 06, 2012 in Quote of the Day, Teaching Humor | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right...Oprah Winfrey
January 01, 2012 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer...Albert Einstein
October 26, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
It's not about controlling your time, it's about controlling your attention…Professor Dara Quackenbush, Texas State University
September 30, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Francis Adams
September 16, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. (Author unknown)
August 24, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it…Aristotle
August 10, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others...Tryon Edwards
July 29, 2011 in Quote of the Day, Tips for Teaching | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way...Doris Lessing
June 20, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance... Thomas Sowell
June 06, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I've been saying for several years that I'm going to write a novel. I've written/published over 50 articles in academic journals as well as a book on teaching but for some reason the idea of writing the novel is overwhelming. Thus, I found the following quote inspirational.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one...Mark Twain
Today I'm taking a five hour workshop on writing a novel! What have you been putting off?
May 13, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know…Daniel J. Boorstin
May 11, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley
April 12, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Formal education will make you a living;
Self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
April 04, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The purpose of education is to help students develop a lifelong love of learning…Lisa Thumann
March 23, 2011 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something...Thomas Hardy
December 15, 2010 in Advice for Teachers, Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." Sir Barnett Cocks, British politician
October 27, 2010 in Advice for Teachers, Quote of the Day, Teaching Humor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Found this as the tag line at blog, Teach Online.
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
So true!
February 19, 2010 in Advice for Teachers, Quote of the Day, Tips for Teaching | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. Charles W. Eliot, educator and former president of Harvard University.
October 27, 2008 in Quote of the Day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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