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- September 1st: “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Lily Tomlin
- “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” Robin Williams, “Dead Poets Society”
- “You can learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond.
- “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.”
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
- “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai
- “There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: passion.” Martha Stewart
- “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” Brian Herbert
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton
- “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not graduation day.” Harry Wong
- September 19th: “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” Peter Brougham
- September 20th “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” James Dewar
- September 24th: “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius (September 28th)
- “Integrity is the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.” Tony Dungy (October 6, 1955) former professional football player and coach
- October 11th “The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- October 16th “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” Oscar Wilde
- October 31st “The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.” Dan Rather
- “Never underestimate a public school teacher.” Tim Walz
- November 4th: “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” Walter Cronkite
- Novmeber 6th “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar
- November 7th “We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
- November 8th: “We learn from failure, not from success!” Bram Stoker
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
- November 19th “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A Garfield
- “I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Winston Churchill
- November 30th “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
- December 16th “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
- “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead
- December 13th “Being fearless isn’t being 100% not fearful, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway.” Taylor Swift
- December 5th “There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” Walt Disney
- December 7th “Information may be free, an education is priceless.” Marie Forleo
- December 28th: “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” Mortimer Adler
February Lessons / February Jokes / February Hashtags
- February 16th “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
January Lessons / January Jokes / January Hashtags
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams (Top Education Quotes)
- “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” Horace Mann (Top Horace Mann Quotes)
- January 15th “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
- January 17th “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Ben Franklin Quotes)
- “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner (Top Psychology Jokes)
- January 17th: “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table – all of that starts with education.” Michelle Obama
- January 26th National Compliment Day: “I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
- January 29th “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James (January 11, 1842)
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Quotes)
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
- “Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.” Martin Luther King Jr.(Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
- January 18th “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A.A. Milne, “Winnie the Pooh”
- “The time is always right to do the right thing.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Top 25 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
- “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost
- “Think, think, think.” A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (Top 25. A.A. Milne Quotes / Winnie the Pooh Quotes / Winnie the Pooh Jokes)
- “There is no friends as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway
- “Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
- “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
- “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- January 30th “Knowledge — that is, education in its true sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
- “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers (Psychology Lessons & Top Psychology Jokes)
- “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett
February
- “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838)
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss (Top 50 Dr. Seuss Quotes & Dr. Seuss Trivia)
- “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist (February 4, 1913
- “Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” (Top Valentine’s Day Jokes & Top 365 Quotes for Mothers / National Chocolate Day Jokes)
- “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
- “Don’t pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
- “Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
- “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
- February 12th “Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln (Top Presidents Day Jokes)
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
- “The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist’. ” Maria Montessori
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung (Top Psychology Jokes)
March
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss
- “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
- “Divided, there is little we can do. Together, there is little we cannot do.” John F. Kennedy
- March 4th “Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.” Dav Pilkey
- “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
- “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
- “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
- “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
- “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb
- March 14th Albert Einstein’s Birthday: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
- “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
- “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
- “They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
- “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
- “We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
- “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
- “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
- “A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” Joyce Meyer
- March 30th National Pencil Day: “No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers.” Wolfgang Riebe
- March 31st National Crayon Day: “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
- “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
- April 4th “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
- “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told, ‘I am with you kid. Let’s go!’” — Maya Angelou
- “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
- April 8th: “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan
- “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
- “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
- “If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
- “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
- “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
- “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
- “Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
- Earth Day Quotes:“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Native American Proverb
- Earth Day Quotes: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
- Earth Day Quotes: “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau
- “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” Barry Commoner
- April 22nd Earth Day Quotes: “The earth is what we all have in common.” Wendell Berry
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
- April 27th “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- May 1st “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
- May 4th: May the 4th Be With You: “Do or do not! There is no try.” Yoda
- Teacher Appreciation Week: 101 Quotes for Teachers! “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
- “Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
- Memorial Day Quotes: “Freedom isn’t free.” Unknown
- Memorial Day Quotes: “For love of country they accepted death.” James A. Garfield
- Memorial Day Quotes: “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ” Benjamin Disraeli’
- May 14th “There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.” Albert Einstein
- Memorial Day Quotes: “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” Lee Greenwood
- Memorial Day Quotes:“Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. ” Richard Watson Gilder
- Memorial Day Quotes: “All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.” Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue
- Memorial Day Quotes: “The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.” Aaron Kilbourn
- Memorial Day Quotes: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Nathan Hale
- May 19th :“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
- Memorial Day Quotes: “Ah! never shall the land forget. ” William Cullen Bryant
- Memorial Day Quotes: “Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.” Wallace Bruce
- Memorial Day Quotes: “The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.” Minot J. Savage, Decorating the Soldiers’ Graves
- Memorial Day Quotes: “True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.” Francois de la Rochefoucauld
- Memorial Day Quotes: “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Arthur Ashe
- May 25th “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- May 27th “The road to freedom — here and everywhere on earth — begins in the classroom.” Hubert Humphrey.
- Memorial Day Quotes: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” George S. Patton
- Memorial Day Quotes: “In war, there is no prize for the runner-up.” General Omar Bradley
- Memorial Day Quotes: “Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.” Richard Watson Gilder, The Burial of Sherman
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- May 29th “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” John F. Kennedy (May 27, 1919 – November 22, 1963)
- “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” John F. Kennedy
- June 3rd: “Education doesn’t make us smarter. It makes us whole.” Jill Biden
- June 5th “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
- June 19th “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- June 8th “You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d think you do. You build by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” Barbara Bush
- “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” Clay P. Bedford
- “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- June 12th “Think about every problem, every challenge we face. The solution starts with education.” George H.W. Bush
- June 13th “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W.B. Yeats
- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
- June 11th “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vince Lombardi
- “The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” Dan Rather
- “Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- “Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” Phyllis Theroux
- “Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.” Michael Burke
- June 15th Father’s Day Jim Valvano Quotes: “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
- “Christmas is not as much about opening presents as opening our hearts.” Janice Maeditere
- “There can never be enough said of virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” Francoise Sagan
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather
- “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” Mary Manin Morrissey
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “Words can sometimes, in moments of grace of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” Eli Wiesel
- “The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.” Will Smith
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “A child can ask questions a wise man cannot answer.” Author Unknown
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
- June 27th: “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Helen Keller
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” John Updike
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
- What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” Nelson Mandela
- “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” Nelson Mandela
- “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Nelson Mandela
- “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” Nelson Mandela
- “It always seems impossible until its done.” Nelson Mandela
- Teachers, Top Reasons to Read “The Playful Teacher”: “The opposite of play is not work, it is depression. Depression results from serious lack of play.” Dr. Stuart Johnson
- Teachers, Top Reasons to Read “The Playful Teacher”: “Parents must recognize that choosing their children’s playdates (verses the children choosing) and setting expectations for extra-curricular activities, music lessons, tutors – fully scheduling their kids – perhaps in the well-intentioned pursuit of an Ive League college is not the best path for their beloved child.” Dr. Stuart Johnson
- July 10th “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
- July 12th “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
- July 12th “The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” Malala Yousafza
- July 14th “The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.” Gerald Ford
- July 18th “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela (Top Nelson Mandela Quotes) (July 18, 1918)
- July 26th “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
August Jokes / August Knock Knock Jokes / Teacher Jokes for August
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu
- “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) writer, theologian, scholar
- “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” Elin Nordegren
- “Education is the vaccine of violence.” Edward James
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
- “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Maimonides
- “Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival.” W. Edwards
- “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs
- “Our passion is and always should be to make life better.” Martha Stewart
- “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau
- “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris
- “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So … get on your way!” Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
- “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” Abigail Adams
- “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” Tibetan Proverb
- “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” Brian Tracy
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talbert
- “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” Chuck Grassley
- “The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” Jean Piaget
- “It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” Meister Eckhart
- “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” Douglas Pagels
- “It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.” Lemony Snicket, “Shouldn’t You Be in School?”
- “Be true to your school now, just like you would to your girl or guy. Be true to your school now and let your colors fly.” The Beach Boys, “Be True to Your School”
- “Be the best of whatever you are.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
- August 28th: “Everything is hard before it is easy.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
- August 30th “The beginning is always today.” Mary Shelley
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein