“You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.” ~~ Galileo
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ” ~~ Maya Angelou
“The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.” ~~ Meladee McCarty
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. ” ~~ Barack Obama
“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 essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.” ~~ Marva Collins
“There’s tons of magic in the world, and it’s all science.” ~~ Martha Beck, at TEDx San Diego 2011
“The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.” ~~ Jacques Barzun
