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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
- John Keats
Inside every great teacher, there is an even greater one waiting to come out.
- Harry K. Wong, from the web site of Harry K. Wong, Inc. http://www.harrywong.com
Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened.
- attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, in e-mail from Ana Zir, 11-1-02
Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - The Buddha
- Ana Zir in e-mail, October 28, 2002
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
- Morrie Schwartz, quoted from Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom, Doubleday:1997)
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- in e-mail from Michael Varnen, Los Angeles, 10-23-02 (original source unknown)
In the end, education has to do with fashioning certain kinds of individuals--the kinds of persons I (and others) desire the young of the world to become. I crave human beings who understand the world, who gain sustenance from such understanding, and who want--ardently, perennially--to alter it for the better. Such citizens can only come into existence if students learn to understand the world as it has been portrayed by those who have studied it most carefully and lived in it most thoughtfully; if they become familiar with the range--the summits, the valleys, the straight and meandering paths--of what other humans have achieved; and if they learn always to monitor their own lives in terms of human possibilities, including ones that have not been anticipated before. No doubt, there are various routes to this wisdom . . . .
- Howard Gardner, The Disciplined Mind--Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves. 1999, Simon & Schuster
Knowing where you are now is the first step to creating the future.
- Dave Mason (President, Northeast Consulting Resources, Boston, MA)
Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.
The Education of Little Tree (1976, Forrest Carter, University of New Mexico Press)
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.
- E. Kubler-Ross (in e-mail from Ana Zir}
Confusion is often seen as negative and rarely feels good. You may be pushed and pulled by the demands of others. When you get past the negative feelings to live in the moment, confusion is a gift, because its appearance is a signal you are not clear about what you want. You won't get what you want, if you don't figure out clearly what it is.
- Michael Dabney (in a faculty meeting with Konawaena Middle School staff)
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