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"What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become."
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce (1928- American Lecturer and Writer)

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
- Walt Disney

"The more powerful that technology becomes, the more indispensable good teachers are."
- Michael Fullan (2002)

"Be a fountain, not a drain."
~Rex Hudler

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
~Bertrand Russell

“Knowledge like the sky is never private property … Teaching is the art of sharing.”
– Abraham Joshua Herschel, Philosopher, Educator

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. "
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
- Chinese Proverb

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
- Postman, N. (1982). The Disappearance of Childhood.

" The children we teach will not care how much we know, until they know how much we care."
-Thomas Sergiovanni-

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
- Robert M. Hutchins

"...our country must abandon all the habits of racism, because we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time." from his 2005 inauguration speech
- George W. Bush

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
- Thomas Paine

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler

"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The gap between what is taught and what is learned—both intended and unintended—is large."
~ Cuban, Larry (1992) Curriculum Stability and Change.

"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."
~ William Arthur Wood

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