Category Archives: Quotes

As every second post on this site is a quote. You’ll find a deep and broad variety of quotes under this category, which overlap with several other tags and categories. Many of the quotes are larded with links for deeper reading on the subject of the quote, or connections between the subject of the quotes and other people, things, or ideas. See the Taxonomies page for more about this category.

The Great Lexicographer Might Be Talking to Pearson

Posted on June 20, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Your manuscript is both good and original; the the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”

Samuel Johnson

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged

A Dicta for Teaching Writing

Posted on June 13, 2016 | Leave a comment

“There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

H.L Mencken

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged

The Joys of Critical Thinking

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

George Santayana

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes

Tagged

Why We Read

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Employ your time by improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored so hard for.”

Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged ,

Meeting Fundamental Needs

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Children and adults alike share needs to be safe and secure; to belong and to be loved; to experience self-esteem through achievement, mastery, recognition, and respect; to be autonomous; and to experience self-actualization by pursuing one’s inner abilities and finding intrinsic meaning and satisfaction in what one does.”

Thomas J. Sergiovanni Building Community in Schools (1994)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes

Tagged

Doing Great Work

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes

Tagged , ,

Artists of the Mind

Posted on June 7, 2016 | Leave a comment

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) As quote in Spectator (1711)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged ,

What Do We Teach?

Posted on May 31, 2016 | Leave a comment

“At present there are differences of opinion…for all peoples do not agree as to the things that the young ought to learn, either with a view to virtue or with a view to the best life, nor is it clear whether their studies should be regulated more with regard to intellect or to regard to character.”

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged ,

Education and Social Equity

Posted on May 23, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Surely there is enough for everyone within this country. It is a tragedy that these good things are not more widely shared. All our children ought to be allowed a stake in the enormous richness of America.”

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Essays/Readings, Quotes, Reference

Tagged

The Virtue of Liberalism

Posted on May 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

“The noblest aspect of the American liberal tradition is its respect for diversity.”

Theodore R. Sizer (1932-2009)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

Leave a comment

Posted in Quotes, Reference

Tagged