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Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Joe Namath
When you have confidence, you can a lot of fun; and when you have fun, you can do amazing things. (flow connection)
W. A. Nance
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
Ogden Nash
Children aren’t happy without something to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think their children are naive.
Maurice Nathanson (American professor)
What a teacher doesn’t say . . . is a telling part off what a student hears.
Martina Navratilova
I’m not just involved in tennis but committed. Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.
I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
Hilda Neatby
When we judge a man not by his car but by his conversation, not by his house but by his books, we may have a land fit for teachers to live in.
Willie Nelson
How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Dorothy Nevill
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
Louise Nevelson
I think most artists create out of despair . . . if labor pain is for physical birth, then there is a psychic pain . . . for creation. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.
Flower A. Newhouse
Lack of willpower has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Issac Newton
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sea shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Jack Nicklaus
I know it sounds selfish, want to do something no one else has done. But that’s what you’re out here for . . . to separate yourself from everyone else.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Whoever is fundamentally a teacher takes things – including himself – seriously only as they affect his students.
Florence Nightingale
“And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality.” 1852
“Heaven is neither a place nor a time.” 1873
“You ask me why I do not write something. . . . I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”
Andrew Nikiforuk
Schools have never been about getting access to information. That’s the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.
As the Industrial Revolution took fathers away from the field and neighbourhood shop, their capacity to teach their own children was sharply limited. In 1810, 87 per cent of all fathers worked at or near the home, where they could be tutors and trainers. By the turn of the last century, the fraction had declined to 42 per cent; as we approach the turn of another century, the fraction stands at 3 per cent. Obeying the dictates of capitalist or socialist materialism, many fathers now spend, by one estimate, an average of seventeen seconds per day in intimate conversation with their children.
The movement for public schooling was, in short, a social invention to repair the destruction of an old tradition: familial instruction or job training. Today, with more and more mothers leaving the household for the workplace, school can’t help but become less and less a place for teaching and learning and more a place for child rearing and infant therapy. This abandonment of the nurturing of children to strangers with certificates and degrees, an unprecedented social experiment, is frequently celebrated as progress. In truth, it is the work of a self-interested and materialistic generation that knows little history and possesses little wisdom. School’s Out
As we approach the end of the century, it’s time to acknowledge that public education in North America is a betrayal of our traditions, our communities, and our children. What began as an attempt to make an aristocratic education available to ordinary people has become a self-serving monopoly that promotes idiocy. School’s Out
The overriding obstacle remains a school system too often managed by careerists who systematically, if unwittingly, impede reform by undermining teachers, wasting money, discouraging leadership, and driving a wedge between parents and schools. School’s Out
As a great teacher and writer, the Czech-speaking Comenius believed that education was about knowledge, virtue, and piety. In hundreds of essays and texts, he tried to give “an accurate anatomy of the universe, dissecting the veins and limbs of all things in such a way that there shall be nothing that is not seen, and that each part shall appear in its proper place and without confusion.” School’s Out
As a true instructional leader, a principal does not shuffle paper, kowtow to obnoxious parents, or simply manage a building all day. Nor does he or she hide behind the three Bs: the board, the budget, and the bull. School’s Out
Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Richard Nixon
Any change is resisted because the bureaucrats have vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Dorothy Law Nolte
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Steve Nordby
Those who can do.
Those who can’t teach.
Those who can’t teach train teachers.
Those who can’t train teachers write teacher training textbooks.
Those who can’t write teacher training textbooks write state assessment tests.
Novalis
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Alden Nowlan
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Julius Nyerere
Our education must therefore inoculate a sense of commitment to the total community, and help the pupils to accept the values appropriate to our kind of future . . .