Being clear about what teaching is matters vitally because how teachers understand teaching very much affects what they actually do in the classroom. ~ Paul H. Hirst, "What is Teaching?".

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing ~ Walt Disney

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take
the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." ~ Indira Gandhi (1917- 1984), Indian Politician, granddaughter of Mahatma

If you are proactive, you focus on preparing.  If you are reactive, you end up focusing on repairing. ~ John Maxwell

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another." Ellen Goodman (1941 - ), U.S. Journalist & Author.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail ~ Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Derek Bok

I never let education get in the way of my learning~ Mark Twain

The problem of being in the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat!  ~ Unknown

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.~Charles Stanley

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. ~ Anna Quindlen

The word "TEAM" does not have an I in it~ Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevel.

The wicked leader is he whom the people despise. The good leader is he whom the people revere.
The great leader is he of whom the people say, “We did it ourselves.” --Lao Tzu

"No man (or woman) will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself (or herself), or to get all
the credit for doing it." ~ Andrew Carnegie.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ~John Andrew Holmer

Try not to become a person of success but rather to become a person of value. ~ Albert Einstein  (1879 - 1955)

Be nice to people on your way up.  They are the same people you will pass on the way down. ~ Jimmy Durante (1893-1980).

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought of you if you realized how seldom they
do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William Arthur Ward.

When we cannot change a situation, resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it
within ourselves. ~ Gerald Coffee, former P.O.W, speaker.

Change is the one constant in life. ~ Rosa Guy

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes
for the better.  ~John Steinbeck

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.~ Anonymous

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.  ~ Carl Bard

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.  ~ William James

Until the power of love is greater than the love of power, then there will be peace.  ~ Unknown

We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best
to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.   ~ Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of
talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
Writer, Humorist.