Module3

Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. No on was there. TZ Post a favorite quote or resource here. Why?Sometimes our favorite quotes can give us insight into how we think, and how we think can influence our expectations. You can just post your quote below the previous post--please try not to delete anyone else's information. :-)

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. Stockdale Quote

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson, posted by KB.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins KH

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. ~Dr. David M. Burns, posted by DM

Never, never, never give up. ~Winston Churchill, posted by MZ

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. Anomyous. posted TQ

Those who love teaching help others love learning. Author Unknown. Posted by KR

A child is not a vessel to be filled, but a lamp to be lit. Posted by JJ
 * Hebrew Proverb**

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to our school house door.-H.G. Wells. Posted by JK

Reading is thinking, guided by print. Lucy Calkins PR Everyone does the best they can until they know better and then they do better. Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ZO

'How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?' … the answer is. 'It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed….they're' immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar'. Peter Senge. SK

'Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.' Hebrew Proverb JP

"Whoever is doing the talking is doing the learning!" Samantha Bennett NS "Learning is a consequence of thinking." David Perkins NS

"Never make excuses - they rob you of power and produce mediocrity."- Posted by RG

"Those who have never fell- have never climbed." - Posted by RG

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." - Posted by RG

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" Ghandi - Posted by RG

"Excellence is a habit." Posted by RG

"It is much better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle a question without debating it." -Posted by RG "Students come to us each year with dreams of what they will become. Our challenge--our sacred task--is to keep these dreams alive and to make them ever more real and attainable. Though the dreams to us may seem too lofty or too far from reality, it is not for us to judge. - // Posted by PD //

We must encourage students, support their quest, and lift them to touch and grasp their dreams. Who is to know which will be the next peacekeeper, inventor, or world leader? Only if we keep the dreams alive and build hope and aspiration will they be preserved. After all, our miracle is to make the impossible possible for each of those we teach." - // The MASTER Teacher //// - Posted by PD //

You're never done, you've only just begun. by Lucy Caulkins posted by JR

Tell me and I will forget, Show me and I will learn, Involve me and I will understand. by Teton Lakota MS

The only way of discovering the limits of possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~Arthur Clarke posted by LS

"Writing is the Soul, on paper." author unknown AS

What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher....? It is to be able to say "the children are now working as if I did not exist."-Maria Montessori, BG

It's the chance of a lifetime, in a lifetime of chance. And it's high time you joined in the dance (Dan Fogelberg). KW

'Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go'. Sylvia Robinson posted by TP

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Ghandi posted by JM

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Ghandi posted by SO

"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn." Author Unknown posted by KA

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." submitted by TS

"Underpromise and overdeliver." Author Unknown posted by JV

"Learn to Listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly." Author Unknown posted by JV

"It is the responsibility of we, as adults, to teach our children how to think, not what to think" Author Unknown posted PR

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." Confucius posted by KV