“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
Posted in Essays/Readings, Quotes, Reference
“Learning without thought is time lost.”
Confucius
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“The teacher’s task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in from of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.”
Nathan M. Pusey (1907-2001) as Quoted in The New York Times (1959)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
I’d hoped to have a combination worksheet/learning support on citing sources for research papers ready to post this week, but events intervened: these documents aren’t quite ready, alas.
Instead, I’ll post this list of daily salutations that I use each day on my board. These are quick vocabulary builders, and if you have inquisitive students, they’ll ask what each salutation means. In other words, these words, which I use to follow either “Good Morning” or “Good Afternoon,” have the potential to supply you with an instant teachable moment at the beginning of a class period.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.”
Anatole France (1844-1924)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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