A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
Mark Caine
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply out of doubts about ability.
John Cairdi
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Dr. Mary S. Calderone
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Hortense Calisher
A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine will hang around my neck like a rainbow.
Jean Callahan
Children are intensely invested in getting their way. They will devote more emotional and intellectual energy to winning arguments than parents ever will, and are almost always better rested.
Tracy Callard Teacher
I want them to know that school is the most wonderful place on earth and that learning new things is a fabulous life-long adventure. When they leave to go home each day, I want their brains to be overflowing with ideas and questions, and their hearts yearning to find out more.
I’m not crazy at all. I’m just incredibly thankful that I had the courage to leave a career where I was not happy in order to follow my heart. I believe we can best spend our time on earth by making a difference in the lives of those who will follow after we’re gone.
Tracy Callard, 2002 Kansas Teacher of the Year, was a corporate attorney but is now an elementary teacher, the usual response, she says, is “are you nuts?”
Maria Callas
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means: great teachers forsee a pupil’s ends.
Anne Cameron
A child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world . . . . Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs, and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.
Albert Camus
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Eddie Cantor
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
George Carlin
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish writer
Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things it distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
It is better to perish than to continue schoolmastering.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate . . . put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket . . . .
There never was a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Boss your boss just as soon as you can; try it on early. There is nothing he will like so well if he is the right kind of boss.
Dr. Michael Carrera
Be aware of self-esteem programs, they can be seductive but offer short- term rewards. Self-esteem is caught not taught. A person must be around people who value them. In working with the child, the educator may have to pulverize concepts that the family has built over several years.
Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied (to the question of what was taught in school), “and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
Child of the pure, unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale. Through the Looking Glass
That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked,
“because they lesson from day to day.”
Lewis Carroll (Advice to poets)
When you are describing a shape, sound, or tint;
Don’t state the matter plainly,
but put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
with a sort of mental squint.
Thomas J. Carruthers
A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Barbara Harrell Carson
Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them . . .
Rachael Carson (1907-1964)
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on
the wonders and realities of the universe about us,
the less taste we shall have for destruction.
[We are] challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
Hodding Carter III
There are only two lasting bequests we could hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other is wings.
M. Cartmill
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
George Washington Carver (American agricultural chemist, 1860-1943)
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Education in the broadest and truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
Pablo Casals
You must work— we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Dennis Cassivi educational researcher
Educational researchers are that breed of mankind who have made a career out of pursuing senseless questions with a vigor and technical precision that makes the exercise both bizarre and extravagant.”
Fidel Castro
We must have teachers – a heroine in every classroom.
To sow schools is to reap men.
Willa Cather
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?
Cato the Elder (95 – 46 B.C.)
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Bennett Cerf
From the examination paper of a nine-year-old Chicago hopeful named Larry Wolters” “Nathan Haley said, ‘I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.’ This has come to be known as Haley’s comment.”
A little boy worrying through his very first day at school raised his hand for permission to go to the washroom, then returned to the class a few moments later to report hat he couldn’t find it. Dispatched a second time with explicit directions, he still couldn’t find it. So this time the teacher asked a slightly older boy to act as guide. Success crowned his efforts. “We finally found it,” the older boy told the teacher. “He had his pants on backwards.”
The ten-year-old son of the richest, most humorless codger in town was a first-rate, four-star, all-American cheat, but the teacher hesitated to snitch on him to the old man. Finally, she compromised on this note: “Judging by his recent written exams, your son is forging his way continuously ahead.
Letter received by an Elementary School Teacher in the Bronx
”Please never hit our Sylvester again. He’s a delicate, sensitive boy and is not used to corporal punishment. We never hit him at home except in self-defense.”
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peace, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read schoolboy.
The teacher of a high school class in the fundamentals of economics led the discussion around to the population explosion. “Certain levels of our society reproduce much more frequently than others,” he point out. “What people would you guess reproduce the most?” One bright student answered, “Women.”
An English prof at Vassar was impressing upon his freshman class the advantages of acquiring a large vocabulary. “Say a word out loud to yourself five times,” he advised, and it will be yours for life.” A pert frosh in the front row closed her eyes and breathed ecstatically, “Walter, Walter, Walter, Walter, Walter . . . ”
At a conference on education, a vote-conscious state senator boomed from the speaker’s platform, “Long live our teachers!” From the back of the hall came the query, “On what?”
Cathy Cerveny teacher
You never know how you’re going to touch kids. They’re all special. I was special with my ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder]. They all have something to give. I don’t care so much if they know when the Revolutionary War started. If they learn to treat each other with respect and love learning, then I’ve done my job.
Wilt Chamberlain
It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.
John Chambers, CEO. Cisco Systems
The next big killer application for the Internet is going to be education. Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail look like a rounding error.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) U.S. Unitarian clergyman and writer
He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.
Richard Chapleau
Teaching is the focal point of my universe. I’m at peace in the classroom. I’m called to teach as any priest or nun. Aside from family, it’s the most sacred part of my existence. I can’t conceive of ever leaving the classroom entirely. Very few people are lucky to find where they are supposed to be in life. There are a lot of wanderers out there. I was lucky to find it.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1923) American writer
The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Inspired teachers . . . cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered, one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps, like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter-shop; and they must be honored and trusted.
A strange thing has occurred in America. I am not sure that it has ever occurred before. The teachers wish to make learning easy. They desire to prepare and peptonize and sweeten the food. Their little books are soft biscuit for weak teeth, easy reading on great subjects; but these books are filled with a pervading error; they contain a subtle perversion of education. Learning is not easy, but hard.
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343? – 1400
Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I recommend to you to take care of minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life, it is not an education at all.
The chief object of school is not to learn things but unlearn things.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
My teacher has a reading problem. He can’t read my writing.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Noam Chomsky
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice or action arise, human science is at a loss.
Agatha Christie
You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister, 1874-1965)
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. (My Early Life)
Courage is grace under pressure.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. (My Early Life)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Cicero (Roman orator 106 -43 B.C.)
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
John Jay Chapman (American writer 1862 – 1933)
The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Noam Chomsky
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwilling instruments.
Ching Ning Chu
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
Frank A. Clark
Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.
The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Hendrik John Clarke
A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention. Then he can teach his lesson.
Richard Clark
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
James F. Clarke
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J.M. Clarke
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux, 19th Century)
Look at me — I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
What we have to do is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
R.D. Clyde
Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
Ty Cobb
Every great hitter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Jacqueline Cochran (The Stars at Noon 1954)
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Henry John Cody 1868 – 1951
Education is casting false pearls before real swine.
Johnnetta B. Cole
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.
Barbara Colorose
If kids come to us [teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
If we force children to submit and attempt to control them we must accept that as they grow older and stronger we will face the violence we nurtured in them knowing indeed, we have taught them well.
C. C. Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Marva Collins
You can pay people to teach, but not to care.
There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from “audio-visual aids” – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.
Superior teachers make the poor students good and the good students superior.
What all good teachers have in common . . . is that they set high standards for their children and do not settle for anything less.
Everything works when the teacher works. It’s as easy as that, and as hard.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don’t need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
Charles Horton Cooley
It was a formidable criticism when a student said, “They do not know I am here.” In fact no teacher or official does, in most cases, become aware of the student as a human whole; he is known only by detached and artificial functions.
John Amos Comenius
Schools are the workshops of humanity.
All things must be taught in due succession, and not more than one thing should be taught at one time. We should not leave any subject until it is thoroughly understood.
Confucius
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
By nature, men are really alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
If your plan is for one year, plant rice;
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees;
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate the children.
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.”
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
William Congreve (1670-1729) The Morning Bride, act 1, scene 1
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak . . .
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Sandro Contenta Rituals of Failure 1993
Between The Lines Publishers Toronto
. . . the rigidly bureaucratic nature of schools makes it less likely that teachers will rock the boat. Those who try to spark a social conscience in students recognize they are jeopardizing the progress of their careers in a system in which administrative efficiency pave the road to the top.
“If you stand out on the front lawn and start calling for change, you’re going to be viewed as a wild-eyed, semi-crazed sort of person because you’re going to be questioning some fundamental values in society,” said Edmund Rice principal Brother Kieran Murphy. “Sometimes it means your job if you’re going to talk about the injustices of society or the fact that you’re living in a system that’s hypocritical. Those kinds of things follow you right through your career. They’re not going to put the disturbers in positions of authority, they want corporate people.” Alan King’s study suggests Murphy’s belief is accurate. Teachers most likely to seek administrative positions, King found, are those who did not choose teaching as a first career. Page 130
The Western myth of progress promised a consumer heaven on earth through scientific achievement. In this sense, it was much the same as the utopian promises of communism. The new myth or story we require promises to leave utopia to the gods. It promises no final chapter or happy ending. It promises only to exist from the moment a child enters nature and a desire becomes a gesture and then a name. It’s a story that waits to be told as a book waits to be read. What counts is the tale’s construction. Schools should develop builders of tales – people who construct narratives with a passion and lucidity that limit rebellion by respecting a common and inalienable human dignity. The central goal of schools should be to develop storytellers in revolt.
To come to serious grips with important social issues is to raise in the classroom problems and issues and perspectives that are not going to be popular with the people on whose livelihood the teacher depends. You can’t ask individual teachers to bear the burden of being particularly saintly in a bureaucratic environment. And so you need to create the context, at a broader level, in which this kind of conversation and emphasis is acceptable. Page 194 (Future link school musical)
The tragedy is that teenage rebellion, vibrant and confused, usually falls prey to co-option or resignation. But building on the vague awareness sparked by rebellion can pave the way to meaningful social change. The challenge is to guide the aimless revolt from one that negates human dignity through resignation to one that affirms it through action. Page 197
Schools need as much as possible, to hand over control to students. If the purpose is to help them understand that myths are theirs to mold and remold, then students will eventually insist on changing their school environment. They need the power to substitute hierarchy with democracy.
In the end, it’s neither the kinds of courses taught nor their content that’s most important, but the process practiced. An education that encourages students to search for personal meaning and care about social change is of the essence. Whether it happens in a class on popular culture or in Latin is of no consequence. Our desire is for builders of tales; people for whom seeing through myths is as easy as reading street signs; people who will revolutionize society through art or science; people who will revolutionize their families or workplaces through actions big or small. Page 202
Eustace Conway
No arts or creativity. No passion. Just a slow monotone existence in oppressed ignorance. I asked if they knew what the word ‘sacred’ meant. They didn’t know.”
Charles Cook (School Principal)
The doctor of philosophy who cannot make a simple wooden box is as poorly educated as the carpenter who cannot read.
Joan Ganz Cooney
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
Lewis and Faye Copeland
A mountaineer took his son to a school to enroll him. “My boy’s after larnin’, what d’ya have?” he asked the teacher.
“We offer English, trigonometry, spelling, etc.,” she replied.
“Well, give him some of that thar trigernometry; he’s the worst shot in the family.”
A teacher asked the class to name the states of the United States. One child responded so promptly and accurately as to bring forth this comment from the teacher. “You did very well – much better than I could have done at your age.”
“Yes, you could,” said the child consolingly, “there were only thirteen then.”
A teacher entered the classroom and noticed a girl student sitting with her feet in the aisle and chewing gum.
“Ethel,” exclaimed the teacher, “take that gum out of your mouth and put your feet in.” Lewis and Faye Copelan
TEACHER: “Johnny can you tell me what a waffle is?”
JOHNNY: “Yes’m, it’s a pancake with a non-skid tread.”
A little girl arrived at kindergarten all out of breath with excitement.
“Why, what’s the matter?” asked her teacher.
“We’ve got a new baby at our house,” she replied. “Won’t you come and see it?”
“Oh, thanks!” said the teacher. “but I think I had better wait until your mother is better.”
“It’s all right,” said the girl. “You don’t have to be afraid – it’s not catching.” `
Jennifer Corriero Executive Director, TakingITGlobal
It is so important for these young people to think beyond the traditional path and get into a career they have a passion for.
Thomas J. Cottle
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Bill Cosby
We had a teacher in school who hated kids – he caught me reading a comic book in class and snatched it away from me. “You’ll get this back at the end of the semester.”
“Why, is it gonna take you that long to read it?”
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
William Cowper
A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
Marcelene Cox
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.
It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.
Children always take the line of most persistence.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Confucius
If your plan is for one year, plant rice;
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees;
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Pat Conroy (b. 1945) American writer
One can do anything, anything at all . . . if provided with a passionate and gifted teacher.
Eliza Cook (A Song for the ragged Schools)
Better build schoolrooms for “the boy,”
Than cells and gibbets for “the man.”
Ted Cook
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
Bill Cosby
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by “survival of the fittest.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn’t because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Stephen Covey The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. 1989
Empathic listening is so powerful because it give you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives, and interpretation, you’re dealing with the reality inside another person’s head and heart. You’re listening to understand. You’re focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
Marcelene Cox
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Monta Crane
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone to do it, or forbid your children from doing it.
Michael Crichton (b. 1942) American writer
Why teach? Why did Prometheus steal fire only to turn around and give it away? There is an inherent generosity in the human spirit-one of its faces is the face of the teacher.
Quentin Crisp
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
Agatha Christie (Remembered Death 1945)
Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the the world will notice . . . The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don’t give a damn.
Amanda Cross (b.1926) American writer
Perhaps teaching is really a mutual experience between the younger and the older, perhaps all there is to be learned is what they can discover between them.
I suspect you of being a born schoolteacher, something apparently rarer in our day than a fine glass blower, and infinitely more desirable.
K. Patricia Cross
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “”apparently ordinary”” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
e e cummings (1894 – 1962)
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Madame Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.