Educational Quotes

Educational Quotes
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington
Carver
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." Mary McLeod Bethune
"My hear is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of
understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mild, and behold, all things are
changed." Anne Sullivan
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

- W B Yeats
"When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the
school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school." A S Neill
"Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information,

observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the
community."
- Claire Aumonier
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little
plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it
goes to wrack & ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the
enjoyment of seeing & searching can be promoted by means of coercion & a
sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a
healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a
whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially
if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly."
Albert Einstein
"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our
national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a
single word. That word is "education." Lyndon B. Johnson
"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves

throughout their lives." Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with
excellence." Unknown
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of
many alternatives." Willa A. Foster
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you
will never grow." Ronald E. Osborn
"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student." Marva Collins
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge." Albert Einstein
"What scupture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry B. Adams
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Alexander Pope - English poet, 1680-1744
"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States
(1801–1809)
"A picture is worth a thousand words."

Fred R. Barnard - from an article by Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal,
Printers' Ink
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

John Keats - October 1795 – 23 February 1821- last born of the English Romantic poets
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong - born March 26, 1942 - American author and teacher
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other
thing."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United
States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
M.K. Gandhi - October 1869 – 30 January 1948 - political and spiritual leader of India
during the Indian independence movement
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously."
Charles F. Kettering - August 29, 1876 – November 24 / November 25, 1958 - American
inventor
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact."
Norman Vincent Peale - American Protestant preacher and writer - May 31, 1898 –
December 24, 1993
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
André Gide - French author and winner of the Nobel Prize - 22 November 1869 – 19
February 1951
"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."
"A mind always employed is always happy."

(1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."

Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, prominent leader in the African American
civil rights movement - January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of
the United States
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer - Franco-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician,
African missionary, 1875 - 1965
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

George Washington - military and political leader in the formation of the United States of
America, First American President - February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

"God helps them that help themselves."

the United States
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."

the United States
"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."

Jesus Christ - central figure of Christianity - 5 BC/BCE – c. 30 AD/CE
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time."
(1801–1809)
"Hitch your wagon to a star."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American lecturer, essayist, and poet - May 25, 1803 – April 27,
1882
"Home is the place, when you have to go there; they have to take you in."
Robert Frost - American poet - March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound
to live up to what light I have."
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
Edith Sitwell - British Poet - 7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964
"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer - June 19, 1623 –
August 19, 1662
"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison - Considered that greatest inventor of all time, 1846 - 1931
"I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right."
"I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details."

"I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
Aryeh Frimer
"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Isaac Newton - 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 – 20 March 1726 - English physicist,
mathematician & astronomer
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa - 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 - Catholic nun of Albanian
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States, 1884 - 1972
"If you have to ask how much something costs, you can't afford it."
J. P. Morgan - April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913 - American financier & banker
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

the United States
"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still
there."
Will Rogers - American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, 1879 - 1935
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor
was provided to console him for what he is."
Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet - 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900
"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

Friedrich Nietzsche October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900 - 19th-century German
philosopher
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that
have been tried."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle - 384 BC – 322 BC - Greek philosopher
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."

Howard Ruff - Financial advisor and writer - 1931 - ?
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but
the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910 - well
known by his pen name Mark Twain, - American author
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

Sun-Tzu - Chinese general and military strategist - 722–481 BC
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge."

the United States
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
William Shakespeare - Famous English poet and playwright - 26 April 1564 - 23 April
1616
"Nature abhors a vacuum."

Francois Rabelas - French monk and satirist 1494-1553
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - composer of the Classical era - 27 January 1756 – 5
December 1791
"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

Napoleon Bonaparte- Military and political leader of France 1769 - 1821
"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte- Military and political leader of France 1769 - 1821
"Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day."

(1801–1809)l
"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency."

Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States - October 27, 1858 – January 6,
1919
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"

Henry Ford - American industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Co. - 1863 - 1947
"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand
presently at God's great Judgment Seat."
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find."
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
George Bernard Shaw 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950 - Irish playwright
"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
"Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton - 1834-1902 - British historian, politician and educator
"Religion is the opiate of the people."

Karl Marx - German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist,
communist, and revolutionary - 1818 - 1883
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
William Shakespeare - Famous English poet and playwright - 26 April 1564 - 23 April
1616
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested."
Francis Bacon - English philosopher, 1561 – 9 April 1626
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

1919
"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Friedrich Nietzsche October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900 - 19th-century German
philosopher
"The Almighty has his own purposes."

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
1919
"The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."

the United States
"The buck stops here."

Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States, 1884 - 1972
"The child is father of the man."

William Wordsworth - English Romantic poet - 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."

David Henry Thoreau - July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 American author & poet
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
Benjamin Disraeli - 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister
"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - English politician 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873
"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of
thinking."
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,

regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
"The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining."

"There are no gains without pains."

the United States
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

the United States
"Time is money."
the United States
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington - military and political leader in the formation of the United States of
America, First American President - February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799
"To err is human, to forgive divine."

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
David Henry Thoreau - July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 American author & poet
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
Napoleon Hill - American author - October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd US President, held office during World War II, 1882 - 1945
"Whenever you do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how
you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
(1801–1809)
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

Vince Lombardi - Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but
you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what
they want."
Zig Ziglar - American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker - born 1926
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for
themselves."
General Philosophy
We believe it is important that a school be 'led' by a set of agreed shared beliefs. To achieve this
staff and community need to enter into 'learning conversation's to define and articulate such a
philosophy. As it is said: If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything' or 'Control your own
destiny or someone else will'.
'What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its
children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our
democracy.' John Dewey
'We need a metamorphosis of education - from the cocoon a butterfly should emerge.
Improvement does not give us a butterfly only a faster caterpillar.' Learning to Learn
www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au
'No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world
anew.' Albert Einstein
'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results' Albert
Einstein.
'Some people would rather die than think'. Bertrand Russell
'If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got.' Adam Urbanski
'One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar'. Helen Keller
'Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.' Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jnr
'Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a
sailor can set them straight'. John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'.
'The faithful witness, like…Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he
is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays
society when he is silent…He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.'
John Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards'
'Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which
faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.'
Peter Block Business Philosopher
'Wordsmiths who serve established power…castrate the public imagination by subjecting

language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.' John Ralston Paul,
'Voltaire's Bastards.'
'It is today we must create the world of the future.' Eleanor Roosevelt
'The human mind treats a new idea the way a body treats a strange problem it rejects it.' Sir Peter
Medawar
'Some folks are wise, some are otherwise'. Tobies George Smollett
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.' Isaac Newton
'Those who do nothing are never wrong.' Theodore de Bouville
'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' From the Go -Between
'We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older…then it is very
hard to change our minds'. Howard Gardner
'Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something…Many of us is

fundamentalists…because it worked pretty well for us.' Howard Gardner
'Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail'. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
'The world by and large has to be reinvented.' Charles Handy in 'Beyond Certainty'.
'There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.' Frederico Fellini
Film Director
'Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge'. Winston Churchill
'There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.' Peter
Drucker Business Philosopher.
'Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present.' Peter Drucker
'I believe that revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new life forms.' M Gorbachev
'Chaos breeds life, where order breeds habit,' Henry Brooks US Historian
'Is anybody alive out there?' Bruce Springsteen to the crowd.
'It is impossible to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys' Anon
'Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.' Edward de Bono
'To simplify you have to clarify. Simplification is the new competitive advantage' Jack Trout
'Simplicity'
'Our life is frittered away by detail.. simplicity simplicity, simplicity.' Henry Thoreau
'We need to be the authors of our own life.' Peter Senge
'We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists
who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.' Peter
Block, Philosopher
'We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming'. Verner von Braun
'First define, then refine'. Bill Guild NZ Pioneer teacher
'Everything of importance has been said by someone who didn't invent it.' Alfred North
Whitehead.
'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
''Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the
bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.' John Ralston Paul 'Voltaire's
Bastards.'
'The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is
the management of schools which walk the beaten path.' John Dewey
'Much educational change is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic'. Anon
Being on tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.' Karl 'The Great' Wallenda
'A pessimist is a person who looks both ways before crossing a one way road.' L Peters
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.' Les Brown
In the end we will have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to
live more musically.' Vincent van Gogh
'It is difficult to know what a fish talk about but you can be sure it isn't about water'.
'We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why
bother?' Neil Postman
'The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.' Edward Joyner Yale Univ. School
'We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes
sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.' Margaret Wheatley and
Kellner Rogers
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving
the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.'
Peter Berger Sociologist
'It is always the minorities who aren't part of a mainstream who define what the limits…of the
majority are going to be.' Rose Elizabeth Bird, US Chief Justice, California
'The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees…the mind that knows that trees
and the forest is a new mind.' Marilyn Ferguson
Bureaucracies are beautiful mechanisms for the evasion of responsibilities and guilt.' Warren
Bennis Leadership expert
' I know of no other safe depository of the ultimate power of society but the people themselves
and if we think ( the people) not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome
discretion the remedy is not to take it from them , but to inform their discretion by education'.
Thomas Jefferson 1820
'A little revolution now and then is a good thing.' Thomas Jefferson
'Slow down you are going too fast'. Simon and Garfunkle
'The world is crazier and more of it than we think, incorrigibly plural.' Louis MacNeice Author
'You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear…you are
the determining factor.' Neale Donald Walsh Author
'Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.' Aristotle
'Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives to all that live there.' Sioux Indian saying
'Everything important is already known, the only thing is to rediscover it.' Anon
'Every reform was once private opinion.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Those of us who are old can afford to live dangerously. We have less to lose.' Maggie Kuhn Grey
Panthers
'Age is compulsory, wisdom is optional'. Anon
'The most potent force for change …is the growing recognition of millions of adults that there own
impoverishment came from a large measure, from their schooling.' Aquarian Conspiracy.
'Some of us are just less damaged than others.' ( by schooling) Buckminster Fuller
'An impressive proportion of great, original thinkers were educated at home…stimulated (and)
born up by high expectations' Aquarian Conspiracy
'Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no
examinations, no teacher training' Charles Handy
'When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen'. Harrison Owen
'Present thinking people kill the future.' Ken Blanchard ,Business Consultant
'If you can change your mind, you can change the world.' Joey Reimer Creativity Guru
'When I was young I thought that people at the top really understood what the hell was
happening…now I know they don't know.' David Mahoney
'The first people had the questions, and they were free. The second people had answers, and
they became enslaved.' Wind Eagle Modern Indian Medicine Woman
'I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal,
and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above
answers…creativity above fact regurgitation…individuality above conformity.. and excellence
above standardized performance….. And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more
of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more
bureaucracy. Tom Peters Author 'Re-imagine' www.tompeters.com
'We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but
we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such
changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful
difference.' Deborah Meier, 'Good Schools are Still Possible
'The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.' William Gibson
'Reformation comes from the bottom up - a transformation demanded by the people.' Religious
writer
'Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind' Thomas
Jefferson
'Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by
stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of
security….The new security will be a belief that …if this doesn't work out you could do something
else'. You are your own security'. Charles Handy Business Philosopher.
'The homogenization of cultural diversity and the destruction of cultural history are central forces
underlying societal breakdown worldwide'…… what is the deepest and most profound force
driving change , I'd say it is the awareness, however dim and ill formed , that we are in deep
trouble…The first step is to realize everything is interrelated.' Peter Senge 'Through the Eye of
the Needle'
'The slick houses and holiday homes of the rich hiding the despair of the poor.' Anon
'We have been through a period when knowledge was fragmented, but dreams of coherence
survived….. the expanding edges of fields…are closer to each other than are the central cores.'
Carnegie Foundation/Teaching 77.
'We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural
narrowness.' Stanley Kripper Psychologist
'What we thought was the horizon of our potential turns out to be only the foreground.' Tom
Roberts Educator
'We will not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.' T S Eliot 'Little Gidding'
'The centre falls about. The centre cannot hold.' W B Yeats
'Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.' Franklin P Adams
'Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual' Erich Fromm
'What is to give life must endure burning.' Victor Frankl

'Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon
people back to the old ideas.' Marilyn Ferguson
'The map is not the territory.' Alfred Korzybski /Semanticist
'We are told not to cross a bridges until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have
crossed bridges far ahead of the crowd,' Anon
'If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.' Stephen
Hawkins Physicist
'Fall in love with your life's work again, my fiend, or your energy will wane, your voice will falter
and there will be nothing to prove but the fact that you are taking up valuable space.' Anon
'Carpenters bend wood fletchers bend arrows; wise men fashion themselves.' Buddha
'In the end we shall have had enough cynicism and skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to
live life more musically.' Vincent van Gogh
'Do not go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail.' Ralph Waldo
Emerson
'If you are looking for a big opportunity, find a big problem.' Anon
'Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.' Karl 'The Great' Wallenda
'Choices in life are rarely pure, but to understand the middle ground it is helpful to imagine the
extremes.' Peter Berger, Sociologist
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The School as a Learning Community
For the past decade or so we have seen schools being forced to comply to a business
managerial ideology that has all but crushed the common sense and creativity of innovative
teachers and schools. We believe now is the time to reclaim schools as democratic learning
communities based on shared values and teaching beliefs that realize the gifts and talents of all
students.
'Secondary education is a more purely industrial age institution than any business.' Peter Senge
'The School That Learns'
(Our large schools)..are organized like a factory of the late 19th C : top down, command control
management, a system designed to stifle creativity and independent judgment.' David T Kearns
CEO Xerox
'Most schools are drowning in events…An attention deficit culture' Peter Senge
'If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways..
we need some imagination , some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact'
Hedley Beare Prof of Educ Melbourne
'We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership
we seek is ours to become. Peter Block Philosopher
'Many of our schools are good schools if only this were 1965'. Louise Stoll and Dean Fink
'If we want to create a workplace that values idealism, human connection, and real, in depth
learning, we will have to create it ourselves'. Peter Block
'It is a tragedy that, for most of us, school is not a place for deepening our sense of who we are
and what we are committed to. If it were, think of the lasting changes it would have made.' Peter
Senge
'All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning of our community depends
on its capacity to develop each gift.' Peter Senge 'The Learning School.'
'Parents and educators…need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations
are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.' Guy
Claxton in 'Wise -Up' 'In high performing schools…Teachers feel invigorated, challenged,
professionally engaged, and empowered just because they are there.' Margaret Arbuckle US
educator
'It is strange perhaps to realize that most people have a desire to love their organizations. They
love the purpose of their school....They fall in love with the identity that is trying to be expressed.
They connect to the founding vision.' Margaret Wheatley and Kellner Rogers
'The guiding principle being put forward is that schools must be self directing.' John Goodland
'As the world becomes more inter-connected organizations that will truly excel in the future will be
( those)... that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn.' Peter Senge 'The
Fifth Discipline'
'Stories are the most effective ways of changing minds...there has to be a protagonist. There has
to be a goal. There have to be obstacles people can identify with. There has to be an ultimate
resolution - hopefully a positive one...what leaders do is put aside or reject the old story, the story
you have grown up with. Leaders say, 'No it's a different story. You may not like it initially, but it's
a better story in the long run, and you have to go with it and here is why...' . Howard Gardner
2004 'The Art and Science of Changing Peoples Minds.
'We can create our own characters and write our own script, if properly taught: 'In a very real
sense...human being create themselves' and school can be stage on which children work through
the plot, rehearse their roles, learn the cues, create social functions, try out their 'ideal selves' for
size, play hero parts which demonstrate their capability for greatness.' Jerry Starratt Expert
School Leadership
'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only
thing that ever has.' Margaret Mead
'Umuatu ngumuntu naga antu' 'A person is a person because of other people.' Zulu saying
'Ones actions ought to come from achieved stillness: not rushing on.' D H Lawrence
'It is difficult to know what a fish talks about, but you can be sure it is not about water.' Old joke
'We are truly the fish in the water of industrial age assumptions' Peter Senge
'Culture is the underground stream of norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and rituals that builds up
over time as people work together, solve problems, and confront challenges .This set of informal
expectations and values shapes how people think, feel, and act in schools.' Deal and Patterson
98
'Some schools develop 'toxic' cultures which actively discourage efforts to improve teaching or
student achievement.' Deal and Patterson 98
Kettering (US inventor) has little time for conventional education. He thought genuine innovators
were hobbled more than helped by what they had learned in school. Overly educated people
were least likely to make new discoveries...they were too intent on doing things the way they had
been taught.' Farson and Keynes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
'Progress seldom leads to serenity, nor should it. A serene workforce is unlikely to try new
things .Creative workers gripe a lot but at a high level...They are concerned about having the
leeway and support to be create something new. They want their talents to be utilized. They
crave a challenge'. Farston and Keynes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
'This acceptance ( that neither success or failure are what it seems to be) produces work
environments that are genuinely risk friendly, which is to say failure tolerant...Those who are
passionately engaged in a task they care about are the ones most likely to achieve success...This
is the samurai way.' Farson and Keyes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins'.
Life is like a cobweb, not an organizing chart.' Ross Perot US Computer Businessman
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Vision, Values and School Culture
We need to, after a decade of individualism and greed, return to values and behaviors that are
respectful of each other, other cultures and our environment. School have to escape from an over
emphasis on individualism and efficiency and return to valuing the democratic virtues that
contribute to the common good of all people and cultures.
'We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light.' Plato
'The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a
stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise. Thomas Jefferson
' I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced
in most schools today and wonder how we could tolerated anything so primitive.' John W Gardner
'It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.' Nick Giovanni US
Poet
'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land amongst the stars.' Les Brown
'You see things and say 'Why'? But I see things and say 'Why not?' G.B Shaw
'Ones vision is not a roadmap but a compass'. Peter Block Business Philosopher
'The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.' Terrance Deal
'One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful
teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.' John Dewey
'If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all
operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since
the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge...' Fukuyama
95 Trust
'We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to
their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not one that succeeds in making apathetic
students satisfying minimal standards.' S Papert
'It is our dream that students will ...experience their classrooms as invigorating, even inspiring
environments - places they look forward to going to and places they hate to leave. It is our dream
that they will come to know themselves as masters of various crafts...It is our dreams that ...they
will come to love the process of learning itself... by making it their own.' Paideia Schools
'Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any
experience attempting to pursue them'. Robert Fritz 'The Path of Least Resistance'
'It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.' Peter Senge
'A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a
shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?' Peter Senge
'We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.' Alvin
Tofler
'I believe we are afraid of recognizing how fundamental our lives would have to be changed if we
should choose to work out of this vision.' Ralph Theobald
We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.' Phillip
Humbert www.philliphumbet.com
'It is not so much about to see what no one has seen before but to think what nobody has yet
thought about that which everybody sees.' Schopenhauer
'Thinking School; Thinking Nation' Singapore Educational Vision
'Love is saying yes to belonging' David Steindle -Rast ( Theologist)
'We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from
that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be
involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.' Margaret Wheatley and
Kellner -Rogers.
'New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects
the more restricted view.' Einstein
'the void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread
belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any
serious way.' John Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards'.
'Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness,
consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.' Steven Covey 92
'Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a man more clever devil.' C S Lewis
'A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.' C S Lewis
'The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about
how school works.' Thomas Sergiovanni
'It is what teachers think, what teachers do, and what teachers are at the level of the classroom
that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get.' Andy Hargreaves and Michael
Fullan
'Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize
us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also
have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair..' William James
'A belief is not a belief until you can visualize it, unless you can create a picture of it in your minds
eye, especially if you have no doubts that reality can be - or is - possible.' Hedley Beare Aust
Educationalist
'Something magical happens when you bring together a group of people from different disciplines
with a common purpose.' Mark Stefik Palo Alto Research Centre Fellow
'If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling,
intuition, art and philosophy.' Peter Block The Answer to How is Yes.'
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they
themselves become principle centred.' Stephen Covey Business Philosopher
'We may never fully appreciate the role that not pursuing a dream plays in limiting people to
disappointing careers and regret filled lives... 'I used to be so gutsy'... 'What happened?.'' Anon
'I think I don't regret a single excess of my responsive youth, I only regret, in my chilled age,
certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.' Henry James
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The Change Process
In reality 'learning' and 'change' are synonymous. Change is not an issue if it makes sense to and
is 'owned' by those involved, rather than being arbitrarily imposed. An appreciation that change is
a continual process, involving confusion and difficulty, is vital for future learners. 'It is not change
that kills it is the transitions'.
'Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go'. Sylvia
Robinson
'Too many decisions about changes are made by people untouched by the change process.'
Peter Block, Business philosopher.
'How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew .' Peter Block
'Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.' Peter Block
'To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.' Harriet Rubin Fast
Company writer
'Things do not change; we change.' Thoreau
'Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their
neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the
harder it is to rewire them.' Howard Gardner
'To the blind all things are sudden.' Old saying.
'Coming, ready or not!' Childhood game
'What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.' Peter Block Business, Philosopher
Author of 'The Answer to No is Yes'
'You can plan events, but if they go according to plan they are not events.' John Berger Art Critic
'You can't jump a chasm in two bounds.' Chinese saying
'As the prostitute said, 'It's not the job it's the stairs.'' Anon
'To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.' R L Stevenson
'In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Innovation never happens as planned.' Gifford Pinchot Environmentalist
'Form follows function' Louis Henry Sullivan Architect
'Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.' Einstein
'If a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not
be surprised if the scream is sometimes a new theory.' R L Stevenson
'The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of
difficulty.' Peter Block Business Philosopher
'If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.' Peter Block
'You must be the change you want to see in the world. If blood is to be spilled to do it. Let it be
our own.'. Mahatma Gandhi
'It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.' W Edward Deming
'If life is like a stage I want better lighting.' Anon
'It is our belief that schools in the main are entering the twenty-first century with structures and
more importantly, underlying assumptions which are nineteenth century in origins, or relating to
the world of the 1950 or 1960s.' Bowring -Carr and Burnham West UK Educators
'To cope with a challenging world, any entity must develop the capacity of shifting and changing -
of developing new skills and attitudes; in short the capacity of learning.' A De Guess: 'The Living
Company'.
'You cannot carry out fundamental changes without a certain amount of madness. In any case it
comes from non - conformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to
invent the future. It took madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I
want to be one of those madmen.' Thomas Sankarra African Congress.
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many
disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads'. Fullan 2001
'Every change you see hides something else we want to do.' Rene Magritte ( Artist)
'Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.' Seneca 4BC-65BC
'Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll
on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought' Marion Brady US
Educator
'You can't force commitment, what you can do... You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and
provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.' Peter Senge
'It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time'. Margery Williams
'Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.' Samuel
Butler
'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.' Forest Gump's
Mother
'We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary egg. We
must hatch or go bad.' C S Lewis
'Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies.
Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.' Margaret
Wheatley and Kellner Rogers
'The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know
what it will be until it notices what it has become.' Margaret Wheatley and Kellner - Rogers
'Age is a high price to pay for maturity.' Anon

'In order to transform schools successfully, educators need to navigate the difficult space
between letting go of old patterns and grabbing on to new ones.' Deal 1990
'There is no risk less way to the future, we must choose which set of risks we wish to run.' Jay
Ogilvy
'I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.' Dorothy/ Wizard of Oz
'Men are asleep, they must die before they awake.' The Koran
'Custom lies on us heavy as frost'. William Wordsworth
'It takes less energy to be free and flowing than locked up in stress ... we learn by releasing and
letting go, not by adding on.' William Bates Editor
'The road is better than the inn.' Cervantes
'The goal of strategic planning is to produce a stream of wise decisions... it also accepts the
possibility that the final product may not resemble what was initially intended'. Patterson, Purkey
and Parker
'I may have not got where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.'
Douglas Adams
'Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.' Seth Godin Business
Philosopher
'Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.' Jonas Salk
'Life is what happens when you are making other plans' John Lennon
'People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.' M C Richards Poet
'It is necessary; therefore it is possible.' C A Borghese
'Plan to be better tomorrow than today, but don't plan to be finished'. Carol Ann Tomlinson US
Educator
'Crossing this river is difficult: it means leaving behind some of your own ideas' Dick Raymond
'When you start to abandoning your old beliefs or values... you may be stuck at the threshold for
two or three years. Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.' Dick
Raymond
'Start with the spirit of the rule- bending it to shape best practice. If the system tightens up, go to
the letter of the rule and efficiently do what is necessary with as little energy as possible in a way
that minimizes impact.' Keith Goldhammer Author. 'Characteristics of successful Principals.
'If a things not worth doing do it badly and get on with the important things.' Bruce Hammonds
( adapted from G K Chesterton)
'If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing it badly.' G K Chesterton.

'Sometimes a thing worth doing is worth overdoing'. David Letterman TV Host
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Leadership and Teamwork
The imposed bureaucratic 'top down' changes have resulted in school being 'over managed and
under led.' Now is the time for courageous leaders, at all level, to emerge and add their 'voices' to
the debate. There are no experts with 'the answer' - we will have to invent the future ourselves
together as we go along.
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and
more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music
demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.' Schlechy
2001
'Leaders... will be explorers, adventurers, trailblazers... leaders of leaders... They will gather
around them people who have the future in their bones.' Rowan Gibson 'Re Thinking the Future.'
'The key to leadership is having people willing to follow you if only out curiosity to see what's
going to happen.' Marc Anderson Founder of Netscape
'Systems of schooling are over managed and under led'. Thomas Sergiovanni
'We need to decide whether to give full service or lip service.' Peter Block
'My friends, you never need to bow to no one' Gandalf to the Hobbits
(In schools) 'There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.' Thomas
Sergiovanni
'It is hard to remember that you came to drain the swamp when you are up to your backside in
crocodiles.' Saying
'The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding
outside. And only he who listens can speak..' Dag Hammarskjold UN
'Comparison, a great teacher told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game we
can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others we lose the freedom to shape our own
lives.' Jim Collins, Author 'Built to Last'
'Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it
agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.' Buddha 53 BC -483 BC
'Self doubt combined with dignity is central to competent leadership... ( a leader)is able to
recognize when he... is on the wrong track and perhaps identify the error by giving in to the need
for complete reevaluation.' John Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards.
'The essence of good strategy is what has always been - insecurity and uncertainty.' John
Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards
'There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not
starting.' Buddna
' the challenge ( for leadership) is to initiate a conversation about what's purpose and what's just
practice. Preserve the best, reinvent the rest'... Hold your company hostage, declare your vision
in a public way... Make decisions right or wrong .There is nothing worse than waffling'. Keith
Yamashira US Business Consultant
'Education can change culture but only in so far as educators are transformed.' Parent School
Board USA
'My job is creating an environment where teachers continually learn'. US Innovative Principal
'The question of 'How?' - more than any other question - looks for answers outside of us. It is an
individual expression of our doubt.' Peter Block Business Philosopher
'Choosing to act on what matters is the choice to live a passionate existence, which is anything
but controlled and predictable.' Peter Block Author 'Stewardship.'
'Leadership is a personal quest you undertake, based on mission that troubles your heart.' Harriet
Rubin. 'Fast Company' Writer
'We have all worked with people who are entirely lacking in energy or are the walking black holes
of human existence; they suck energy out of whoever they walk into. So the litmus test for all of
is, 'Do I generate more energy when I walk into a room or when I walk out of it?'' Steve Farber,
President of Extreme Leadership
'I think it is important for leaders to answer the question 'What's exciting about the work I /we
really do here?' ..to expand it out to the higher meaning and purpose... To really articulate what
we really do here, and why this place is cool.'' Steve Farber , President 'Extreme Leadership'.
'Leadership is a scary thing. That's why few people want to stand up to the plate.'... 'There are
many people who want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with 2,000 pounds of
bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight
pants and hear the crowd roar' Steve Farber.
'Good directors, playwrights and leaders are enablers who make it possible for others to succeed
by providing the means and opportunities for actions.' Anon
'Faced with the choice of buckling under by complying or 'doing a bit of rule bending' successful
leaders get on with the latter.' Thomas Sergiovanni
'To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times.' Peter Koestenbaum
Philosopher
'Remember a dead fish can float downstream but it takes a live one to swim upstream'. W C
Fields
'It is easier to follow the leader than to lead the follower.' Anon
'All bottlenecks occur at the top.' Anon
'Be who you are

and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.' Dr Suess
'Leaders are 'canny outlaws', system benders, creative and responsible rule benders. They have
to succeed because... the deck is stacked against creative, imaginative and entrepreneurial
teachers.' Thomas Sergiovanni
'Most of what institutional leadership does today comes from what they thought we wanted and
needed yesterday.' Peter Block, Author 'The Answer to How is Yes'.
'Win small, win early, win often.' Gary Hamel Leadership 'guru'.
'Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.' Anais Nin
'In fact, leaders... that go from good to great start not with 'where' but with 'who'. They start by
getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right
seats... first the people, then the direction'. Jim Collins
'We need to make hope practical and despair less convincing as a central contribution from adults
to young people.' Jaon Kenwg
'The human being is a walking paradox. We want to be free, completely individual on one hand,
and we want to belong on the other hand. We want to be part of a flock but at the same time, you
want to be you,' Kjell and Jonas
'Leaders... appeal to the heart... with people's deepest, heartfelt hopes. What are these hopes?
Humans have a fundamental longing to believe we are successful in what we do - our need to
achieve. Educators are typically denied this sense of success. Bombarded with too many state,
national, and district standards for students to master... teachers are often unclear as to what
they are supposed to accomplish'. Rick Dufor 2004
'This is a dreary era. Those who know about education have no power; those who have the
power know little or nothing about education' Marion Brady US Educator
'The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many
individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizen, to put down dissent.' H
L Menken
'It is one of life's great ironies: schools are in the business of teaching and learning, yet they are
terrible at learning from one another. If they ever discover how to do this, their future is assured.'
Fullan 2001
'I will release you to be creatively crazy and wonderful for these students... We will do whatever it
takes.' Lorraine Monro Author 'Nothings Impossible'
'Hire Rembrandt to do the painting and don't tell him how to paint.' Anon
'The leader lays down the melody line and encourages individual band members to improvise
around them.' Bradley Porten US Educationalist
'If you are going to skate on thin ice, tap dance, and go down in style.' Bryce Courtenay
'Leaders need to have clear answer to the question 'What do we believe in? and be equally clear
about... 'How do you translate your beliefs into actions?' Bowring Carr and Burnham West
'Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' Anon
'Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which one will I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?'
responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know Alice answered. 'Then', said the cat, 'It doesn't matter.''
Alice in Wonderland
'Power can be taken, but not given. The process of taking is empowerment itself.' Gloria Steinem
US Feminist
( We need) 'leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and
leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.' Thomas Sergiovanni Leadership for the
Schoolhouse
'It is an injustice, a grave evil and disturbance of the right order for a large and higher organization
to abrogate to itself functions which can be performed more efficiently by smaller and lower
bodies.' Papal Encyclical
'make no little plans. They have no magic to stir man's blood... make big plans. Aim high in hope
and work.' Daniel H Burnham
'It is time for us to release ourselves from simplistic and ineffective prescriptions; the time to
dream is upon us.' Carl Glickman
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the
situation.' W C Fields
'The true leader senses and transforms the needs of followers.' James McGregor Burns
If we want to help people change, I s important that we don't push or pull them - just walk
together.' 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'
'A team is a mosaic' Charles Williams
'Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a genius-
and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction,' E E Schumacher
'The best leaders are like outstanding samurai warriors in the sense that they engage themselves
fully in the tasks at hand without being distracted by what might go wrong. Warren Bennis called
this 'The Wallenda Factor' - putting ones energy into walking life's various wires without concern
for the outcome'. Farson and Keyes.
'Decisions of the head rather than the heart are then ones we come to regret.' Patricia Weenolsen
Psychologist
'When we are doing something we're passionate about, failure becomes a non-issue... Pursuit of
a dream rarely leads to regrets... Too many of those with unrealized aspirations have set them
aside due to fear of failure' Farson and Keyes.
'Nothing happens until someone does something.' Steve Farke Leadership Guru
No more prizes for building the ark .Prizes only for predicting rain.' Anon
Leadership is needed to assemble a team of renegades- people with the right mix of passion and
courage to be willing to do things that haven't been done before.' Scott Lutz, CEO
'Never look down to test the ground before taking the next step; only he who keeps his eye on the
far horizon will find the right road.' Dag Hammarskjold UN
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Teaching and Learning
For too long schools have had to comply with endless bureaucratic top down edicts, confusing
curriculums and associated accountability demands which have taken the focus away from
learning and teaching. As these imposed technocratic systems falter it is now time for creative
teachers to also add their voices to the debate.
'It's about teaching and it's about time.' Book Title
'we know at lot more now than the 'last time around'- the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work
for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles
about human thinking and learning.' David Perkins, 'Smart Schools.'.
'education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners.
That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat
the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.' David Perkins,
'Smart Schools.'
'Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.' Hebrew
Proverb
'Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full
life.' Peter Block
'To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world
thirty to fifty years into the future.' Gordon Brown MIT
'Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and
avoiding being seen as not knowing.' Chris Agyris
'The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you are learning you're not
old.' Rosalyn Sussman Yalow US Medical Physicist
'The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems
that beset us.' Rosalyn Sussman Yalow US Medical Physicist
'Old age is compulsory, wisdom is optional.' Anon
'You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love,
the more things you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about.'
Ethyl Barrymore Actress
'Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for
depth of understanding.' Howard Gardner
'teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by
the endless pressures and problems.' David Perkins 'Smart Schools.'
'Until recently, education has had it backwards, caring little for the teacher... and enormously
about the content. Yet it is a gifted teacher who can infect a generation with the excitement of
learning.' Aquarian Conspiracy
'Education must develop in youth the capabilities for engaging in intense concentrated
involvement in an activity.' James Coleman 1977
'My education was a prolonged and concerted attack on my individuality' Neil Crofts Author
Authenticity
'I was born exited' Mark Twain
'Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.' Tom Peters , 'Re - Imagine'
'There is a road from the eye to the head that does not go through the intellect.' G K Chesterton
'We must give more attention to the interplay between the science of teaching - pedagogy - and
the art of teaching... A teacher must be anchored in pedagogy and blend imagination, creativity
and inspiration into the teaching learning process to ignite a passion for learning in student.'
Peyton Williams, President ASCD 2003
'We can whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children... we already know
more than we need to know in order to do that.' Ron Edmonds Educator
'Having no alternative we were born creative.' Aquarian Conspiracy
'Human beings start out as butterflies and end up in cocoons.' Anon
'Unfortunately schools are no help because they teach us not to make connections... There
should be a few people at least... pulling things together.' Edward Hall Anthropologist
'When Abraham Maslow asked a college class whether anyone had expectations of greatness,
no one responded. 'Who else then', he replied dryly.' In 'Aquarian Conspiracy'.
'How can you do new math with an old math mind.' Charlie Brown /Peanuts
'The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn.' Gloria Steinem US
Feminist
'Teachers who do a bad job with old tools are likely to do a worse job with strange new tools.'
Anon Educator
'The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the
edge of his chosen field.' Jerome Bruner
'Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence'. Jerome Bruner 86
'The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding,
correcting and arguing like one more students.' Mortimer Adler, The Paideia Proposal
'what a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow'. Lev
Vygotsky.
'The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back ,
observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies
weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what
kind of practice to emphasize.' David Perkins 'Smart Schools.'
'Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much
as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you
explain this step again? How did you... ?' Mark Lepper Stanford Psychologist
'The difference between reform and transformation is as if we have been trying to attach wings to
a caterpillar... it is high time we freed ourselves of attachment to old forms and eased the flight of
the unfettered human mind.' 'Aquarian Conspiracy'
'No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in their
mode of thought.' John Stuart Mills.
'Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.' Douglas Adams, Author
'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
'To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.' David Bohm Physicist
'One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful
teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.' John Dewey
I discovered the brutally simple motivation behind the development of impositions of all
systematic instructional programmes and tests - lack of trust that teachers can teach and
students can learn.' Frank Smith 'Insult to Intelligence'
'The too soft teacher reinforces the learner's natural wish to retreat and stay safe... the teacher
must know when to let the learner struggle... we must not be spared our learning. Risk brings its
own rewards.' Aquarian Conspiracy
'In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity
infuses their work'. Parker Palmer 'Courage to Teach'.
'All true thoughts have been thought through already a thousand times; but to make them truly
yours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.'
Goethe
'Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all'. Norman Cousins
'The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
Somerset Maughan
'Don't just do something, stand there.' Zen saying
'Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's
sunshine.' William Feather US Author
'Only the mediocre are always at their best.' Somerset Maughan
'Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we

were never able to do.' Peter Senge
' The biggest thing about being someone is imajunation. Before you can be something, you must
imajun it.' Fifth Grader quoted by S Papert
'each individual brain is more like a unique and unimaginably dense rain forest, teeming with
growth and decay. It is less like a programmed machine than an ecological habitat that mimics
the evolution of life itself.' Prof Edleman Nobel Prize winner
'Learning is spontaneous, unpredictable, fun, passionate, dangerous.' Bowring - Carr and

Burnham West UK Educators
'A child's attitude towards everything is an artist's attitude.' Willa Cather US Novelist
'Art should simplify.' Willa Cather US Novelist
'We don't have to make human beings smart. They are born smart. All we have to do is stop
doing things that make them stupid.' John Holt
'Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that
we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves'. Piaget
'Morpheus: 'I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one
who must walk through it' The Matrix (Film)
'School improvement is most surely and thoroughly achieved when teachers engage in frequent,
continuous and increasingly concrete talk about teaching practices... capable of distinguishing
one practice and it's virtue from another.' Judith Warren Little Education Researcher
Of a gifted teacher (she) 'has an unfailing heart and eye for magical classrooms and who loses
sleep over any sliver of work at less than the highest quality'. Carol Ann Tomlinson 'The
Differentiated Classroom
' The key is to replace a belief in 'experts' who 'deliver' knowledge of what good teaching is to
workshops with communities of teachers who learn through ongoing collaboration and practice.'
Dennis Sparks Nat Staff Dev Centre (US)
'The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer' Edward T
Hall ( Anthropologist)
'Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries'. Ellen Langer
'To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world
thirty to fifty years into the future.' Gordon Brown former Dean MIT
'Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is the way is
incompatible with the way they learn.' Peter Senge
'If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.' Mao Zedong
'A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply
malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.' John Goodland
Educator
'Most learning disabilities are actually teaching disabilities on the part of the school.' Retired
Teacher
I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out
exploration and questioning.' Jay Forrestor Prof MIT
'All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on
realizing the capacity to develop each gift'. Peter Senge
'Learning to use your intuition is learning to be your own teacher. Vaughan
'Being 'educated' means knowing how little I really know.' Carol T Lloyd
'As your island of knowledge grows, so does your shoreline of wonder.' Anon
'Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child competence'. Jerome Bruner
'Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach
less, but learners learn more.' John Amos Comenius
'I cured the patient but he died' is as logical as saying 'I taught the pupil, but she did not learn.'
Bowring -Carr and John Burnham West UK Educators
'The open teacher ... establishes rapport and resonance, sensing unspoken needs, conflicts,
hopes and fears. Respecting the learners autonomy, the teacher spends more time helping to
articulate the urgent questions than demanding the right answers.' Aquarian Conspiracy
'Progressive white teaches seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I
promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've
heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.''
Delpit 'The Silenced Dialogue'
'teachers who respond to their children's message, and not to their mistakes, appeared to help
their children more.' John Smith Warwick Elley NZ Educators
'The open teacher helps the learner discover patterns and connections, fosters strange new
possibilities, and is a midwife to ideas.' Aquarian Conspiracy
'We trust the teacher who gives us stress, pain or drudgery when we need it. And we resent the
teacher who... takes us into deep water when we are frightened of the shallow'. Aquarian
Conspiracy
'Come to the edge', he said.

They said, 'We are afraid'
'Come to the edge', he said
They came
He pushed them... and they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire Poet
Before we choose our tools and techniques we must choose our dreams and values.' Anon
'If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.' Terrance E Deal
'After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends' Wallace
Stevens
'Studies of high school gradates rarely find any correlation between recognition in high school
and recognition thereafter... The term s are too different. What worked in high school seldom
works later... Those not tested by setbacks when young may never learn how to rebound from
defeat.' Farson and Keyes 'Whoever makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
'Most schools do a remarkably poor job of recognizing and rewarding future achievers... The
standards of success in school have very little to do with standards thereafter' Farson and Keyes
'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
What did predict economic success was a willingness to take chances, most educational systems
honor those who play it safe... The ones who do take chances have a hard time in school and are
often penalized for their independent ways'. Farson and Keyes.
'We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures,
when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently.
Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating
standardized jobs.' Robert Reich Former US Labor Secretary.
'There are two reasons why people learn one because someone said you can't and the other
because someone said you can.' Howard Wilson Retired NZ Principal
'The learner's attitude is thus an essential factor to determine the direction of his learning,
whether he shall learn to do or not learn to do.' William Kilpatrick, Prof of Education 1917
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Curriculum
Schools have been trying to implement impossible curriculums based on a technocratic

accountability model. The future demands students who retain a love of learning - students with
their talents, dreams and passions developed. To achieve these demands a new appreciation of
what a curriculum for the future should be.
'If we don't encourage others to find their own meaning, their own voice, we will never be able to
sustain our own. Freedom comes from following you own voice not following another's' Peter
Block
'There is, it seems, more concern about whether children learn the mechanics of reading and
writing than grow to love reading and writing; learn about democracy than have practice in
democracy; hear about knowledge... rather than gain experience in personally constructing
knowledge... see the world narrowly, simple and ordered, rather than broad complex and
uncertain'. Vitto Perrone, 'Letter to Teachers'
'There is something about the Procrustean bed about schools; some children are left disabled by
being hacked about to fit the curriculum; some are stretched to take up the available space,
others less malleable are labeled as having special educational needs.' Chris Bowring-Carr and
John Burnham West
'The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that
education tends to be cut up into bite sized task..' Guy Claxton in 'Wise -Up'
'Teaching is impossible. If we simply add together all that is expected of a typical teacher... the
sum makes greater demands than any individual can possibly fulfill'. Lee Shulman Stanford Univ
'If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?' Gloria Steinem US Feminist
'Could it be that the current education reforms have not yet fully dealt with what teaching and
learning are all about? In a word, yes.' Peyton Williams ASCD President 2003
'We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.' Winston Churchill
'How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn
because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?' John Dewey
Many school focus too much on achievement... (they need) to create opportunities for young
people develop their learning muscles and their learning stamina through working on real
problems... to reflect on and manage their own learning.' Guy Claxton
'Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.' Alfred North Whitehead
'You have to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something they can think about in
lots of different ways,' Howard Gardner
'The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application
of real problems.' John Dewey
'All the arts are brothers, each one throwing a light unto the others.' Voltaire
'Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.' e e cummings us poet
'Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that does not mean we deserve
to conquer the universe.' Kurt Vonnegut Jnr Author
'What we want to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.'
G B Shaw
'The first people had questions, and they were free. The second people had answers, and they
became enslaved.' Wind Eagle American Indian Chief
'Standardization, the great ally of mediocrity,y wins out over imagination.' Sergiovanni
'The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study
of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that
all of them should do it.' Tracey Kidder
'Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.' John Dewey
'The central problem of an education based on experience is to select the kind of present
experiences that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experience.' John Dewey
'Of course schools should be accountable- but accountable for what?... I would like to see
schools accountable for developing students who have a love of learning - who are continually
growing in wisdom and in their ability to function effectively( and happily) in the world.' Judy Yero
www.teachersmind.com
'We must not entrust the future of our children to habit.' Judy Yero
.Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.' Barbara
Kingsolver
'A teacher cannot build a community of learners unless the voices and lives of the students are an
integral part of the curriculum.' Peterson 94
'The curriculum is to be thought of in terms activity and experience rather than knowledge to be
acquired and facts to be stored.' Haddow Report UK 1931
'The main function of the school... lies in offering opportunities and an environment in which a
child can explore freely, along many lines, and create in many media. In doing he will utilize his
natural instinctive energies in the acquiring of skills and the building of interests.' Froebel
Publication 1949
'Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.' Howard
Gardner
'the intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a
satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.' Hedley Beare Prof of
Educ Melbourne
( Because) it is the intellect which dominates schooling ... the specifically soul making subjects-
literature, drama, music, the visual arts- are progressively 'de-souled' as the child progresses
through school' Dr Bernie Neville Aust Educator
'how we picture ourselves, the language we use about ourselves and our family, the stories we
tell about ourselves or which we allow others to tell, whom we compare ourselves with, what we
think we will become, how we define our own universe, these are the raw material from which we
spin our web of personal mythology'. Hedley Beare Aust Educator
'Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which
attempts to ignore the body's immune system.' Howard Gardner
'Treat people as if they were what they might be, and you will help them become capable of
being.' Goethe
'We should train ourselves not to ask 'How intelligent he/she is?' but 'Which intelligence doe
he/she have most of?.' Charles Handy
'Thinking precedes literacy and numeracy but nowhere in the curriculum is that recognized.' Mc
Gavin, Glasgow University
'We have to... immerse ourselves in interactive, real life, complex experiences out of which we
can process new lives' Caine and Caine 97
'We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for
taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our
beliefs about life and society.' Charles Handy
'If we wish to present ourselves to the wider world as New Zealanders then we must be able to
listen to our own voices, and trace our own footsteps; we must have our own heroes and
heroines inspire us; we must persist with building our won culture with the ingredients close to
hand and not import theses ingredients ready made from abroad'. The late Michael King NZ
Historian.
'Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.' Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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Creativity
We are leaving the Industrial Age and entering an Age of Ideas and Creativity , an age where
individual and shared talent will be the most important assets. Schools as Tom Peter says in his
wonderful book 'Re-Imagine': 'Are a thinly disguised conspiracy to quash creativity'. 'Talent', he
says, 'is everything. And the production of talent is significantly dependent on schools'. Or it ought
to be.
'Creators love creations before they exist'. Robert Fritz
'I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.' Henri Bergson
'Some people see things as they are and ask 'why'? I see things as they have never been and
ask 'why not'?' George Bernard Shaw
'Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.' Anon
'Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.' Margaret Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers Authors
'A Simpler Way'
'Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious
ones.' Guy Claxton in 'Wise Up'
'Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you bloody well better find a way that is going to
be interesting.' Katherine Hepburn
'To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist today.' Samuel Beckett
'When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases. Margaret Wheatley and
Kellner Rogers
'Be a judge of children's creativity - but not too good a judge!' Elwyn S Richardson NZ Pioneer
Educator Author 'In the Early World'
Life is not neat, parsimonious, nor elegant. Life seeks order in a disorderly way.' Margaret
Wheatley and Kellner Rogers
'To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.' Joseph Chillons Pearce
'Orville Wright did not have a pilots license: don't be afraid to bend, or break the rules'. Richard
Tait Grand Pooh Bah , Cranium.
'Professionals built the Titanic - an amateur built the Ark.' Anon
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer it to be postponed.' Winston Churchill
'When Michelangelo looked at the block of marble he was to carve he looked beyond the outside
and saw the shape of the statue he was about to create. He could see the real beauty hidden
within... ' Valerie Stewart, 'The David Factor'.
'The human imagination... has great difficulty in living within the confines of a materialist practice
or philosophy. It dreams like a dog in it's basket, of hares in the open.' John Berger Art Critic
'To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine
something better, you need to step outside for a while.' Bruce Mau Designer
'There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.' Niels Bohr
Physicist.
'Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.' Thomas Kuhn Scientist
'Most of the rules in society tend to restrict creativity to a safe level.' Sting (Musician)
'Great thought reduced to practice become great art.' William Hazlett
'...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides
in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience,' Peter
Block, Business Philosopher.
'Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst
of the confusion' Charles Handy
'You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.' Charles Handy
'Passion is born of vague hopes.' Charles Handy
'All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is opposed. Third it is
accepted as being self evident.' Arthur Schopenhauer
'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer.' Thoreau
'Don't worry about people stealing your ideas/If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.' Howard Aitken
I don't give a damn for any man who can spell a word only one way..' Mark Twain
'Marge, I can't wear a pink shirt to work. Everybody wears a white shirt. I'm not popular enough to
wear white shirt.' Homer Simpson
'A hunch is creativity trying to tell you some thing' Frank Capra
'..centres of creativity tend to at the intersections of different cultures, where beliefs, lifestyles and
knowledge mingle and allow individuals to see new combinations of ideas with greater ease.'
Mihaly Czikszentmihaly
'The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot a wrong
question.' Anthony Jay
'Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?' Frank Scully
'Creative minds are rarely tidy.' Abbey Plaque
'innovators are seldom easy to be around. The most creative members of an organization can be
irascible, annoying, touchy, intolerant, prickly, self aggrandizing. Their lack of tact offends
coworkers. It also makes them willing to speak up when other hold their tongues. What comes out
of their mouths is often quite valuable, if not always easy to hear.' Farson and Keyes, 'Whoever
Makes the most Mistakes Wins.'
'If we learn to domesticate creativity- that is enhance it rather than deny it in our culture- we can
increases the number of creative persons... as it was in the Renaissance, Elizabethan England,
when civilization made great leaps forward.' John Gowan Educator.
'The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our
legendary heroes.' Carl Jung
'One of the marks of having a gift is to have the courage to use it.' Katherine Anne Porter US
Novelist
'Human life itself may almost be pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of
confusion and disparate things that seem to be irreconcilable and put them together in a form to
give them some kind of shape and meaning.' Katherine Anne Porter US Novelist
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Powerful Learners
Students are born with a powerful desire to learn. Everything we do as parents and teachers must
ensure that this powerful desire is kept alive. If there were to be one thing to be continually
assessed it would be this desire... too many students leave with little to show for their time at
school. Too many leave alienated and powerless.
'We are born trying to gain power over our environment. We live and die trying to figure out who
we are; what life means; how to understand joy, pain, victory, and death; how we relate to each
other; and why we are here. The disciplines we study- art music, literature, mathematics, science
or philosophy- give us lenses... the skills... the power to use the understandings in meaningful
ways.' Phenix 1986
'We should turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to
learn whatever needs to be learned.' John Holt
'In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.' David Perkins, 'Smart Schools.'
'To live our lives fully, to work whole heartedly, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to
accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.' Peter Block,
Philosopher
'People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much
contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither
strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the
plot.' Guy Claxton in 'Wise -Up'
'Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than
either of them.' Guy Claxton in 'Wise -Up'
Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy':
an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.' Guy Claxton in 'Wise-Up'
'One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common
vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. David Perkins 'Smart
Schools.'
'Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a
doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more
fully alive. Peter Block
'I will act as if what I do will make a difference.' William James
'An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is
effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.' John Ralston Saul 'Voltaire's Bastards.'
'Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do.' Art Costa
'We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an
accepted trustworthy route map.' Guy Claxton in 'Wise -Up'
'Know how - can do'. 'Don't know how - but will give it a go.' Extended 'Place Makers Motto' by
Bruce Hammonds
'It is amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.' Charles
Kettering US Inventor
'When the going gets tough the tough get going!' Saying
'The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work'
Csikszentmihalyi 'Nature of Insight'.
'It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.' Calude Bernard,
French Psychologist 1813-78
'Powerful learning strategies can most simply be thought of what we presently do for gifted and
talented children. What works for them works just as well for 'at risk' students.' Henry M Levin
Accelerated Schools Project.
'One in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.' Grateful
Dead
'All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.' John Dewey
'Wherever you are be there.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.' Anais Nin Diarist
'Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' Ralph
Waldo Emerson
'Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice.' Anon
'Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that
makes the walk'. Antonio Machardo Poet
'Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.' Ross Perot Businessman.
'I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.' Winston Churchill
'We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations
with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.' Rosalyn Sussman Yalow US
Medical Physicist
'In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with
thinking.' Georges Clemenceau Premier of France 1917
'When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.' Georges
Clemenceau Premier of France 1917- 20
'You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being
engaged in.' Howard Gardner
'The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer.' Edward Hall
Anthropologist
'To be nobody - but - myself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you
everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight, and never stop
fighting.' e e cumming us poet
'What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.'
Weiner Erhard
'If there is a way to do it better... find it!' Thomas Edison
'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better'. Samuel Beckett
'You miss 100% of all the shots you never take,' Wayne Gretsky Ice Hockey Coach
'Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. You simply 'must do' things.' Ray Bradbury
'Getting the balance right between intuitive experimentation and conscious deliberation is vital.
Think too little and you may be stuck with bad habits. Think too much and you may become
paralyzed with self consciousness. Guy Claxton 'Wise Up'
'I have my faults but changing my tune is not one of them.' Samuel Beckett
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend doing
nothing.' George Bernard Shaw
'The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure
from practice as performance.' Ben Zander
'It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.' Alfred North Whitehead.
'Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use
the information you get.' William Feather US Author
'Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.' Ralph Gerard
'Thinking is past experience guiding present actions.' William Kilpatrick Educator 1917
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules' G B Shaw
'Te wao nui tane ( about giant NZ Kauri trees 'Standing out from the crowd') Maori saying
'People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.' Sir Terrance
Conran ( Decorator)
'Why don't we teach out children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are
unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel.'' Charles Handy
'Talent comes with an individual name tag.' Charles Handy
'The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.' Marilyn Ferguson
'We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.' Marilyn
Ferguson
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.' Mark Twain
'To go faster you must slow down.' John Brunner Author
'Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.' Abraham Maslow
'It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.' Carol Ann Tomlinson 'The
Differentiated Classroom'
'If everyone is thinking alike then somebody is not thinking.' George S Paton
'In any work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts' Ralph Waldo Emerson.
'Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished' Carol Ann Tomlinson
'If poetry comes as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.' John Keats
'The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.' William James
'If necessity is the mother of invention what was papa doing?' Anon
'Fledgling skiers make the most progress when they are pushed outside their comfort zone, but
not so far that they're sacred off the slopes altogether.' Ski Instructor
'Courage isn't lack of fear, after all, it's the ability to carry on despite the fear. General Omar
Bradley called courage the 'capacity to carry on properly even when scared half to death.'
Genuine risk takers not only have the guts to act in face of harrowing apprehension, they know
how to harness fear's energy' Farson and Keyes, 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
Fearing failure is not necessarily a bad thing. Excitement is the flip side of fear. Any ten year old
on a skateboard knows that exhilaration is primarily fear transformed... Fear begins as a negative
sensation but can end on a positive note in the form of excitement, elation, exhilaration, euphoria,
even ecstasy. Enthusiasm is close cousin. So are intensity and concentration.' Farson and Keyes
'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.
'Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.' John
Wooden UCLA Basketball Coach
'the Samurai were fierce warriors. What is less known is how much of their thoughts were based
on achieving victory by avoiding thoughts of victory. They knew that focusing on the outcome of a
contest made defeat more likely... to achieve victory by becoming fully absorbed in the process
that would lead them there.' Farson and Keyes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.
Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't
win' Vince Lombardi Basketball coach.
'By not trying too hard, we avoid learning what our true potential is, and having to fulfill it. Doing
our best can be deeply threatening. It forces us to consider what we're actually capable of
accomplishing. Once we learn the lesson we can't unlearn it. Our true potential becomes a
shining light we can follow...' Farson and Keyes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins'.
'An exaggerated fear of losing is the ugly sibling of an over emphasis on winning. Both cloud the
mind.... The players most urged to victory by mothers and fathers proved to be the most cautious.
Those whose parents cheered but didn't push them were then ones most likely to take chances
-and win'. Farson and Keynes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins.'
'I worry that whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would
get out of hand.' Lily Tomlin Singer
'Looking at students work brings you face to face with your values.' Daniel Barron US Nat Reform
Faculty.
'To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.' Phillip
Humbert www.philliphumbert.com
'A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.' Roald Dahl ( Author)
'To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.' Leonardo da Vinci
'Most advances in science comes from when a person for one reason or another is forced to
change fields.' Peter Burdon
'We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as in insoluble
problems. John W Gardner
'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' Albert Einstein
'Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.' Thomas Carlyle
'A fear of foolishness keeps us from painting the pictures we would like to paint, composing the
poems, courting the lovers, making the friends, pursuing the jobs, starting the businesses. Those
who know this, can confront and transcend their fear of ridicule, are usually in a strong position...
Every path breaker has looked foolish, and been humiliated, yet society depends on them
utterly... Only those who are willing to risk looking foolish can invent a breakthrough.' Farson and
Keyes 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins'
'The best work we do is on the verge of embarrassing us, always.' Arthur Miller Playwright.
'A fear of foolishness can never be conquered completely. Nor should it be... Deep down shyness
is a secret most charismatic people have.' Farson and Keyes
'We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear
of criticism, fear of letting down the tea in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they
pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear'. Peggy Noonan,
Ronald Reagan's Speech Writer.
Ana te toka te moana Live like a rock in the sea He akinga na nga tai washed by the tides Maori
saying
'It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.'
Charles Darwin
'The secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand things well.' Henry
Walpole
'I have learnt to say the word impossible with great caution.' Verner von Braun
Quotations about Attitude

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest,
June 1995
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy
Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you
don't want. ~Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had
no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do
with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author
Unknown
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why
this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes
and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose
and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good
thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look
lovely. ~Roald Dahl
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be
hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and

strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you
think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we
have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by

changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
~Samuel Johnson
I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a
party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
~Foster's Law
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's
Little Instruction Book
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting
Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball
out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S.
Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince
Lombardi
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my

wants. ~J. Brotherton
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
~Publius Terentius Afer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette
Goodheart
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible

summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we
learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we
got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book
of Virtues
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would
grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author
Unknown
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,

Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates
of hell. ~Ancient Proverb
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for
Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank,
The Diary of a Young Girl
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli
Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there

Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Say you are well, or all is well with you,

And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his
body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping
measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by
altering his attitudes. ~William James
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point

on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Frankenstein, 1818
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.
~Author Unknown
What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles
Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will
come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself
would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the
big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Let me enjoy the earth no less

Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909
Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery

Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff
in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
~Margot Asquith
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert
Hubbard
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame

of being a little one... ~William Cowper
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore
I wish I was a glow worm,

A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds
of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J.
Andrew Helt
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston
Churchill
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the
fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National
Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain
(unverified)
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
~Betty Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen
Glasgow
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher
von Braun
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com
Your heart is a sun -

Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
~Terri Guillemets
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the
mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for
example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make
them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all
you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author
Unknown
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or
three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go
looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's
looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice
Setter
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a
stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle
Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is
tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you
have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
~Adlai Stevenson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a

person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur
Christopher Benson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that
thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio
Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in
the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey
Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,

raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who
don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can

bear. ~Author Unknown
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of
leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad
Adenauer
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you. ~Terri
Guillemets
No vision and you perish;

No ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.
~Harriet Du Autermont
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by

bombs. ~Kenneth Clark
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown
He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author
Unknown
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the
universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and
freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun,
1951
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard
For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot
better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his
personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its
attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.

~Ronald Spark
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is

only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After
One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
It is no use to grumble and complain;

It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn
out. ~Art Linkletter
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
~Galileo Galilei
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world;
everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.
The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author
Unknown
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision
which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric
Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author
Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to
add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my

mind. ~Paavo Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our
expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon

McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of
character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting
the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I
am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick L. Collins
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from
those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you
know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had
an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.
~Carrie Latet
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to
eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese
Proverb
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course,
first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky
and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off
the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ~Francesca Lia Block
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is
waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

"Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information,

"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student." Marva Collins

"What scupture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

"A mind always employed is always happy."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"A mind always employed is always happy."

"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

"God helps them that help themselves."

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

"I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details."

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

"Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge."

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."

"Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"

"Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Religion is the opiate of the people."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

"The Almighty has his own purposes."

"The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."

"The buck stops here."

"The child is father of the man."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,

"The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining."

"There are no gains without pains."

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

'Some people would rather die than think'. Bertrand Russell

'Wordsmiths who serve established power…castrate the public imagination by subjecting

'Those who do nothing are never wrong.' Theodore de Bouville

'Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something…Many of us is

'Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge'. Winston Churchill

'Is anybody alive out there?' Bruce Springsteen to the crowd.

'Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.' Edward de Bono

'We need to be the authors of our own life.' Peter Senge

'Every reform was once private opinion.' Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Age is compulsory, wisdom is optional'. Anon

'We will not cease from exploration

'The centre falls about. The centre cannot hold.' W B Yeats

'Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.' Franklin P Adams