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Memo to Education Policy Makers

Posted on December 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

Jacques Barzun as Quoted in Newsweek (1955)

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

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The Case for Reading Proficiency

Posted on November 16, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and to others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.”

Harold Bloom, Short Stories and Poems for Exceptionally Intelligent Children (2001)

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

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What Is Education?

Posted on November 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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

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Plato on Differentiated Instruction

Posted on November 2, 2015 | 2 comments

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato (427?-347 B.C.)

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

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William Blake on Recess

Posted on October 26, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Such, such were the joys/When we all, girls and boys/In our youth time were seen/On the Echoing Green.”

William Blake, Songs of  Innocence (1789)

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

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Mark Twain on Classroom Management

Posted on October 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Describing her first day back in grade school, after a long absence, a teacher said, ‘It was like trying to hold thirty-five corks under water at the same time.’”

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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

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For Those Reluctant to Participate in Class

Posted on October 12, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

James Joyce Dubliners (1914)

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

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Maintaining Perspective

Posted on September 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

John Dewey (1859-1952)

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

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A Couple of Thoughts as the School Year Begins

Posted on September 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

“We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only who is in a fundamental sense a scholar—that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire—can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.”

Nathan M. Pusey The Age of the Scholar (1963)

“Our best chance for happiness is education.”

Mark Van Doren (1894-1973)

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

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Steven Jay Gould on Human Aspiration

Posted on September 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

“We pass through this life but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

Excerpted from: Gould, Steven Jay. The Mismeasure of Man (New York: Norton, 1996).

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