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H. Jackson Brown
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Jesse Jackson
Children need your presence more than your presents.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Alice James
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
Henry James
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life’s underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known. They will endure. Towards these ends I pledge my life’s work. I will supply the children with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles. I will pass on the wisdom of my years and temper it with patience. I shall impact in each child the desire to fulfill his or her dream. I shall teach.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Jonathan James (Student aged 16 who hacked into computers at NASA and the Pentagon)
All of it was for fun and games, and they’re putting me in jail for it. I don’t want that to happen again. I can find other stuff for fun.
William James (1842-1910)
Genius…means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success [is] our national disease.
Elizabeth Janeway
What society requires from art . . . is that it function as an early warning system.
Karl Jaspers
Today, for the first time there is a real unity of of mankind which consists in the fact that nothing can happen anywhere that does not concern all.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
They (academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrious pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
J.W. Jepson
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.
David Jeremiah
Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.
Louis Johannot (Headmaster Institut Le Rosey Switzerland)
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The classroom – not the trench – is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – comes down to a single word. That word is “education.”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) (on the headmaster of Litchfield School)
He would beat us unmercifully . . . He would ask a boy a question, and if he did not answer him, he would beat him, and he would beat him without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . . . Now sir, if a boy could answer every question, there would be no need of a master to teach him.
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Example is more efficacious than precept.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The chief art of learning , as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.
Curiosity is one the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Jonathan (High school student)
I think every high school student should take an ethics course. Lots of people don’t have a clue about right and wrong.
David Jones American Teacher
I was in a restaurant once when the assistant manager came up to me and said, “Mr. Jones! You taught me in eighth grade seven years ago. This is a little corny, but I want to show you something.”
He pulled out of his wallet a picture of me, and said, “Whenever I need some inspiration, I look at your picture and remember the things you taught me about life.”
That is what teaching is all about.
Franklin P. Jones
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Michael Jordan American basketball player
My mother is my root foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.
Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice.
Ask the young, they know everything!
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Nothing is known well till long after it is learned.
Carl Jung (1875 – 1961 Swiss psychologist)
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung recounted in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, how after a heart attack in 1944, he “hung on the edge of death.
“Extremely strange things began to happen to me. It seemed to me that I was high up in space. Far below, I saw the globe of the Earth, bathed in a gloriously blue light. I saw the deep blue sea and the continents.” “I had the feeling that everything was being sloughed away; everything I aimed at or wished for or thought, the whole phantasmagoria of earthly existence, fell away or was stripped from me,” Jung wrote. “Nevertheless, something remained; it was as if I now carried along with me everything I had ever experienced or done, everything that had happened around me . . .
Toronto Star April 13 2014
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, “Something is out of tune.”
In all chaos there is a cosmos; in all disorder a secret order.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.