“The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.” ~~ Meladee McCarty
Filed Under: Children, Education, Learning, Meladee McCarty, Teaching
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“I’m through accepting limits ‘cuz someone says they’re so. Some things I cannot change but ’till I try, I’ll never know!” ~~ Elphaba in the song Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked (music and lyrics written by Stephen Schwartz)
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.” ~~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~~ Anais Nin
“It’s not enough to be busy… the question is: what are we busy about?” ~~ Henry David Thoreau
“And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.” ~~ Barack Obama
“The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. … No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.” ~~ Richard Feynman
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” ~~ Steven Wright
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