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Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

Doug Belshaw — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:02:35 -0000

Thanks Esther - great stuff! :-)

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

Esther Arnott — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:22:51 -0000

I know you posted this some time ago but - having just rediscovered it, as I sit in my office reflecting on the year past and 'closing down', I think your points are as relevant today as they were then. One of my own favourites is: "Even in the mud and scum of things, something, somewhere always sings."
Happy holidays!
Esther

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

tgidinski — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:45:39 -0000

Thanks for the prompt! I love sharing these quotations with others; it really sheds a light on oneself.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.
Charles Dickens
(This is the poster I put on the BACK wall of my classroom, to remind me why I went into teaching in the first place.)

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring; those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
(This quotation reiterates my reasons for entering education as a career as well. It's why teaching social responsibility is so important.)

Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
John Watson
(This one is on my desk; it reminds me to consider others' situations, both colleagues, students, and parents, when I'm feeling not-so-terrific about them.)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
(This one reminds me to allow those "square pegs," as many call them, in my classroom to flourish in their own way.)

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
(For those times when someone else takes the applause that you know you should have been recognized for.)

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

Audrey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:11:37 -0000

Here are two of my recent favorites:

See triumph and defeat as the imposters that they are (not sure who)

Do the NEXT right thing. (my sister)

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

llewis — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:03:55 -0000

I like no 3 Doug :-)

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

Lynne — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:41:16 -0000

I like the rabbit quote - my aim will be to keep the Faculty improvement plan down to a few targets, mainly to get ACfE up and running and to ensure ICT is fully embedded in all our teaching - and most importantly to spread the load, something I felt I began to achieve next year. Will need to think about a suitable quote.

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

John Johnston — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:40:14 -0000

Unconditional Positive Regard in the classroom.

Re: 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year

Stuart Meldrum — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:23:33 -0000

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein I believe.

Take it how you like, I find something different in it each time I think of it, but it's one I like to say to others to see what they find in it.