Educator Quotes

The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

In the presence of such weird and wondrous beauty [the night heavens], the tenderest sentiments of the heart are aroused. A feeling of awe and reverence, of softened melancholy mingled with a thought of God, comes over us, and awakens the better nature within us.

Joel Dorman Steele

THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn't a character flaw. It's fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

Rosalind Wiseman

I'm much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don't work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who 'already differentiates instruction.' Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

Milton S. Eisenhower

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

Joseph M. Marshall III

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Caroline Pratt (educator)

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

As I say so often, Observe and wait. Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

Edward Miner Gallaudet

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

The use of color in my paintings is of paramount importance to me. Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man.

When we say "Peace on earth," we can sing about it, preach about it, or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside of us, then it will not be.

We ain't here for no goddamned peace, because we know that we can't have no peace because this country was built on war. And if you want peace you got to fight for it.

When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help from supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

Francisco Ferrer Guardia

The secret of a lucid analysis is, like that of untangling a snarl of yarn, viz: to get hold of the right end of the thread.

Calvin M. Woodward

Biology is often described as the most recent of the sciences, despite the fact that it was one of the first to be studied.

Herbert William Conn

A person ignorant of Botany, on beholding the profusion of flowers which adorn the face of nature, would discover general resemblances, and form in his mind some order of arrangement; but the Botanist learns to distinguish the least conspicuous parts of a plant as most important in a system of classification.

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

They call every insect a "bug," but bugs are bugs, flies are flies, ants are ants, and neither flies nor ants are bugs. Indeed, no insects are bugs - excepting just bugs!

Margaret Warner Morley

The student of mathematics should trust no middleman, but go with his own head to original sources, to the masters themselves. Second-hand ideas are as full of bacteria as second-hand books and clothing.

Edgar Odell Lovett

Much depends upon us for the help of our color—more than many are aware. If we are lazy and idle, the enemies of freedom plead it as a cause why we ought not to be free, and say we are better in a state of servitude, and that giving us our liberty would be an injury to us, and by such conduct we strengthen the bands of oppression and keep many in bondage who are more worthy than ourselves.

Richard Allen (bishop)