Sunday, 19 June 2011

Random Thoughts

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. 

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live. John Dewey


Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. Confucius


If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.- Toni Morrison


I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who-.Rudyard Kipling


Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.Unknown



let us value teachers


"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" - Rita Dunn

"There are no difficult students - just students who don't want to do it your way" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman

" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran