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Buddy Hackett American comedianAs a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
Nancy Hale
Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.
Sir William Haley
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Edith Hamilton
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is to be educated.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Climb ev’ry mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream.
I’m as mild and meek as a mouse.
When I hear a command I obey.
But I know of a spot in my house
Where no one can stand in my way.
In my little corner,
In my own little chair,
I can be whatever I want to be.
On the wing of my fancy
I can fly anywhere
And the world will open its arms to me.
Success is a dream turned into reality.
Jack Handey Saturday Night Live
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Sir William Haley
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
James Hallmark American teacher
I had a professor who started every class with, “So what are you excited about?”
Margaret Halsey (American author and humorist, 1910- )
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
G.H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Andy Hargreaves
For every lighthouse school, there are dozens of “outhouse” schools where districts dump difficult students and weak staffs.
The hardest part of sustainable leadership and improvement is the part that provokes us to think beyond our own schools and ourselves. We need to perform not merely as managers of organizations or as professionals who produce performance results, but also as community members, citizens, and human beings who lead to server and promote the good of all.
Willis Harman
By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.
Peter Harrington ninth-grade geography teacher
One of the biggest challenges I have as a teacher is to show my students the power of perseverance. Students today seem to think that the easy way is the best way. I try to set pretty high standards. My curriculum is not easy. It demands that the student come prepared and be able to think through the subjects we study. When a student takes the time to prepare well, when they’re persistent in their effort, they find satisfaction and a strengthened belief in their ability to take on more difficult assignments.
Sydney J Harris “Leaving the Surface”
The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones—which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Bennett Harrison
The business system is increasingly taking the form of lean and mean core firms, connected . . . to networks of other large and small organizations, including firms, governments, and communities . . . [These] networked forms of industrial organization . . . exhibit a tendency to reinforce, and perhaps to worsen, the historic stratification of jobs and earnings.
Paul Harvey
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Henry S. Haskins
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Katherine Butler Hathaway
Then and there I invented this rule for myself to be applied to every decision I might have to make in the future. I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness, and other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. I think it must be a rule something like this that makes jonquils and crocuses come pushing through the cold mud.
Václav Havel President of the Czech Republic
I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.
Stephen Hawking
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Elizabeth Hawes
The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It . . . is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.
Maureen Hawkins
Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here for an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life
Ian Hay (1876-1952) English writer
[Teaching is] the most responsible, the least advertised, the worst paid, and the most richly rewarded profession in the world.
S.I. Hayakawa
Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
Mark Twain used to say that it was possible to learn too much from experience. A cat, he said, that had squatted once on a hot stove lid would never sit down on a hot stove lid again. The trouble was that it would never sit down on a cold one either.
F.C. Hayes
The wind blows the strongest upon those who stand the tallest.
Helen Hayes (b. 1900), American actress
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, “She’s more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.”
William Hazlitt
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Grace Hechinger
Parents think their children should keep their innocence as long as possible. The world doesn’t work that way.
Heinrich Heine
The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
Robert A. Heinlein
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “Women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep trying.
Suzanne Heller
Misery is when grown-ups don’t realize how miserable kids can feel.
Edward C. Helwick
An important personal quality for a teacher is that he care about humanity.
Ernest Hemmingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Norman Henchey from Education for the 21st Century
Communications replace production and transportation as the key industry and mode of organizing economic activity, the chip replaces the gear and the car as the new social metaphor.”
Dr. Henker
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Robert Henri American artist
In the faces of children I have seen a look of wisdom and of kindness expressed with such ease and such certainty that I know it was the expression of the whole race.
Feel the dignity of a child, do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Jules Henry (Author of Culture Against Man)
The function of education has never been to free the mind and spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape Homo sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern . . . for where every man is unique there is no society, and where there is no society there can be no man. Contemporary American educators think they want creative children, yet it is an open question as to what they expect these children to create. And certainly the classrooms — from kindergarten to graduate school — in which they expect it to happen are not crucibles of creative activity and thought. It stands to reason that were young people truly creative the culture would fall apart, for originality, by definition, is different from what is given, and what is given is the culture itself. From the endless, pathetic, “creative hours” of kindergarten to the most abstruse problems in sociology and anthropology, the function of education is to prevent the truly creative intellect from getting out of hand.
Will Henry
To do what others cannot do, is talent. To do what talent cannot do, is genius.
Katherine Hepburn
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
J.F. Herbart
In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.
Don Herold
The brighter you are the more you have to learn.
Theodore Hesburgh
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is only one way to wisdom: awe . . . The loss of awe is the great block to insight . . . The greatest insights happen to us in moments of awe.
Hesiod
Sweat is the ornament of virtue’s face.
Herman Hesse(1877-1962) German writer, winner of 1946 Nobel prize for literature
The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself.”
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
In me school destroyed a great deal, and I know of few men of any stature who cannot say the same. All I learned there was Latin and lying.
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
John G. Hibben
Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.
Gilbert Highet 1906 – 1978 American Educator
Every teacher dislikes some pupils – the cheeky lipsticked adolescent girls, the sullen, hangdog youths, the cocky vulgar little comedians, how loathsome they can be, all the more so because they do it deliberately.
James Hightower
Our historic challenge is to add, sift, stir, spice, knead, and otherwise blend ourselves together, over time, into a genuine people’s political power.
Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Hippocrates
I swear . . . to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him a partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
Adolf Hitler
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Eric Hoffer
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Marjorie Holmes
What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The worlds’ great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its scholars great men.
Your education begins when what is called your education ends.
John Holt
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A’s on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean’s lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else. (adapted)
There is no difference between living and learning. . . it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate. Teaching is human communication and like all communication, elusive and difficult…we must be wary of the feeling that we know what we are doing in class. When we are most sure of what we are doing, we may be closest to being a bore.
Except in rare times of great stress or danger, there is no reason why we cannot say ‘No’ to children in just as kind a way as we say ‘Yes’. Both are words. Both convey ideas which even tiny children are smart enough to grasp. One says, ‘We don’t do it that way’, the other says ‘That’s the way we do it’. Most of the time, that is what children want to find out. Except when overcome by fatigue, curiosity, or excitement, they want to do it right, do as we do, fit in, take part.
Teachers and schools tend to mistake good behavior for good character . . . They value most in children what children least value in themselves.
The attention of children must be lured, caught, and held, like a shy animal that must be coaxed with bait to come close. If the situations, the materials, the problems before a child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him and no amount of exhortation or threats will bring it back.
Winifred Holtby
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.
Lou Holtz
I don’t think we can win every game. Just the next one.
Sidney Hook
Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods or techniques. The teacher is the kingpin of the educational system.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
Horace
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Steve Hornyak teacher
Schools need to prepare students for the real world, and to that end we need to give students tools for healthy self-expression and developing emotional intelligence. I believe it’s the arts that can do that. Brett Smith Minnesota Teacher of the Year
Our children need to discover art. Perhaps the war against drugs, alcohol, and violence would be more successful if our children knew how to express themselves better.
Joe Houldsworth
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
A.E. Housman
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
”Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me. A Shropshire Lad
Edgar Watson Howe
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Florence Howe
As educators, we live in a fool’s paradise, or worse in a knave’s, if we are unaware that when we are teaching something to anyone we are also teaching everything to that same anyone.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The value of an education lies in the struggle to get it. Do too much for people and they will do nothing for themselves.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where there was only one before.
The entire object of teaching is to enable the scholar to do without his teacher. Graduation should take place at the vanishing-point of the teacher.
Shirley M. Huestedler
I’m bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Thomas Hughes
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night.
Love is a portion of the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the
celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Harold S. Hulbert
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Learning without wisdom a loading of books on a donkey’s back.
Robert Hutchins
A system that denies the existence of values denies the possibility of education. Relativism, scientism, scepticism, [sic] and anti-intellectualism, the four horsemen of the philosophical apocalypse, have produced that chaos in education that will end in the disintegration of the West.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Other people can’t make you see with their eyes. At best they can only encourage you to use your own.
Thomas H. Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Kay S. Hymowitz Ready or Not
Americans simply do not want their children overly involved with them. In other cultures parents cite things like becoming a good spouse and parent, good citizenship, or kindness and sensitivity as their goals for their children. What do Americans want for their children? In every study, one stark answer predominates: independence.
Human beings fashion the childhood their culture needs.