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Anwar Sadat
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Antonne de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”
Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free.
Eloise Salholz (in Newsweek )
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom – discipline, tolerance, honesty – is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
J. D. Salinger
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
Jonas Salk
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.
Joan Benoit Samuelson (in New York Times 1991)
One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.
Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate leader of Burma’s democracy movement
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
George Sand
Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
Carl Sandburg
There is only one child in the world; and that child’s name is ALL CHILDREN.
Margaret E. Sangster
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
William Saroyan
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
May Sarton
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child’s mind, they are not easily eradicated.
She spoke academese, a language that springs like Athene from an intellectual brow, and she spoke it with a nonregional, “good” accent.
Virginia Satir
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible–the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.
Robert C. Savage
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) Maxims.
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead.
John Wayne Schlatter
. . . I have a past that is rich in memories. I have a present that is challenging, adventurous and fun because I am allowed to spend my days with the future.
I am a teacher . . . and I thank God for it every day.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
People who claw their to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
Artur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
Arthur Schopenhaer
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
If you want to achieve something in business, in writing, in painting, you must follow the rules without knowing them.
William H. Schubert. (Former John Dewey Society President)
Education cannot be for students in any authentic way, if it is not of and by them.
Charles Schulz (American cartoonist 1922-2001)
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
Life is like a ten-speed bike – most of us have gears we never use.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and
learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.
The idea that men should ever be favored by being free from the responsibilities of self-sacrifice as men for men is foreign to the ethic of reverence for life. It requires that in some way or other and in something or other we should all live as men for men. Therefore, search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Whatever you have received more than others in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life, all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. You must pay a price for it. You must render in return an unusually great sacrifice of your life for other life.
The African sun is shining through the coffee bushes into the dark shed, but we black and white sit side by side and feel that we experience the meaning of the words: “And all ye are brethren.”
Late on the third day, at the very moment when at sunset we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought: (Reverence for Life)
The iron door had yielded: The path in the thicket had become visible. Now I had found my way to the idea in which life-affirmation and ethics are contained side by side!
Thus, to me, ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principal of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Angela Schwindth
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Sarah Scott
Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.
Pete Seeger
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Jerry Seinfeld
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. – 65 A.D.) Roman statesman
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
I delight in learning so that I can teach.
I respect no study and deem no study good, which results in money- making.
It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they drive him into the profession of a school-master.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work.
Peter Senge
Organizations learn only through individuals who learn.
Kate Seredy
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart, and mountains will move out of your way.
Dr. Seuss
Adults are obsolete children.
Anne Sexton
I am teaching . . . It’s kind of like have a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Tupac Shakur
I believe this is all in God’s hands and I’m appreciative of God for all that I’ve gotten to do.
Everyone’s past is what made their future.
I don’t understand why America does not understand “thug life.” America is “thug life.”
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning of his life.
William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
How poor are they that have not patience Othello, Act ii, Sc.3
I’ll be as patient as a gentle stream Two G of V, Act ii, Sc.6
Where is truth if there is no self-trust? Rape of Lucrece
We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good Ant & Cleo, Act ii, Sc.1
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. (King Henry VI)
We are such stuff as dreams are made on… The Tempest, IV:1
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? M for M, Act ii, Sc.2
They that have the power to hurt, and will do none; they rightly do inherit heaven’s graces” Sonnet 94
In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; none can be called deform’d but the unkind” Twelfth N, Act iii, Sc.4
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt M for M, Act i, Sc.5
Edward Shapiro and Wesley Carr
Imagination and self-reflection are two primary conditions for our psychological development.
If the need for emotional connectedness is not satisfied, collective human endeavor is impossible.
George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright 1856-1950)
Honest education is dangerous to tyranny and privilege: the systems like the capitalist system, kept in vogue by popular ignorance, churches which depend on it for priestly authority, privileged classes, and ambitious conquerors and dictators who have to instill royalist idolatry and romantic hero-worship, all use both ignorance and education as underpinning for general faith in themselves as rulers.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains; and they protect you against violence and outrage from your fellow prisoners. In a school you have none of these advantages.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Parents and guardians are so worried by children and so anxious to get rid of them that anyone who is willing to take them off their hands is welcomed and whitewashed.
I can read French as easily as English; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to account some scraps of German and a little operatic Italian; but these I was never taught at school. Instead, I was taught lying, dishonorable submission to tyranny, dirty stories, a blasphemous habit of treating love and maternity as obscene jokes, hopelessness, evasion, derision, cowardice, and all the blackguard’s shifts by which the coward intimidates other cowards. And if I had been a boarder at an English public school instead of a day boy at an Irish one, I might have had to add to these, deeper shames still.
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child’s soul through the dirt.
Now nobody knows the way a child should go. All the ways discovered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civilizations, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of agonizing human maggots, struggling with one another for scraps of food.
The school remains what it was in my boyhood, because its real object remains what it was. And that object, I repeat, is to keep the children out of mischief: mischief meaning for the most part worrying the grown-ups.
What is a child? An experiment. A fresh attempt to produce the just man made perfect: that is, to make humanity divine.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
You see things and say, “Why?” but I dream things and say, “Why not?”
It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that, the break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Some men see things as they are and say, ”Why?” I dream of thing that never were and say, “Why not?”
Gail Sheehy
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Alan Shepard
I think my interest in aviation goes back to grade school, nine, ten, early teens.
Ithink that’s when I realized I was the sort of person that was objective enough and dedicated enough to do a good job.
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
I thought I was pretty normal, I did chores around the farm, had my own newspaper route to make money to buy a bicycle.
I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don’t remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
I’d like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
Lisa T. Shepherd
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
Fred Shero
I’m like a duck: calm above water, but paddling like hell underneath.
Hu Shih (Chinese writer, 1891-1962)
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
Florence Scovel Shinn
No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, every person is your teacher.
Vandana Shiva
The question I constantly ask myself is, “What are the creative catalytic linkages that strengthen community and enable communities of people to exercise social and ecological control on economic and technological processes?”
Lydia Howard Sigourney
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
Charles E. Silberman
Unless on has taught . . . it is hard to imagine the extent of the demands made on a teacher’s attention.
George Simmel
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.
William Gilmore Simms (American writer 1806 – 1870)
. . . the great secret of education is to open all the ears – which we call senses – of a man, so that he can drink in all the harmonies of that world of music, which we commonly call life.
Red Skelton
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
B.F. Skinner (American behavioral psychologist, 1904-1990)
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
. . . teaching is the only respectable profession that has no instructional training.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
R.S. Sligh, Jr.
Education is the biggest business in America. It has the largest number of owners, the most extensive and costly plant, and utilizes the most valuable raw material. It has the greatest number of operators. It employs our greatest investment in money and time, with the exception of national defense. Its product has the greatest influence on both America and the world.
Lillian Smith
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience and has only a little to do with school or college.
Stan Smith
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Sydney Smith
A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Carson Smith McCullers
The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
Tobias Smolleti
Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise.
Socrates
The child is not a vessel to be filled but a flame to be kindled.
Children nowadays love luxury, have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders . .
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. . . . No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be… those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes… those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober — minded men.
Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, “Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It seemed to me the supreme heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom . . . and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about the unfold wonders.
Jay Sommer teacher
The interaction between the teacher, students, and community members is of paramount importance in teaching and learning. A teacher who knows the community in which he works possesses a better understanding of his job and of his students. It is therefore, very important that the teacher becomes involved in the life of the community.
Susan Sontag (American writer b. 1933)
The intellectual life is about feelings. It’s a state of being active with your consciousness responding to your environment.
Sophocles
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Maureen Whelan Spaight teacher
In being a good teacher you have to be a little bit of a Dr. Faustus and Peter Pan. I have an unquenchable thirst to know more, but I also want to have fun.
John Lancaster Spalding
There is a grave defect in the school where the playground suggests happy, and the classroom disagreeable thoughts.
Muriel Sparks (b.1918)
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
Herbert Spencer 1820 -1903
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.
I have taken great care not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Mark Spitz
I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned about tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Spock “The Cloud Minders.” Star Trek
This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those that receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership.
Viola Spolin (teacher)
First teach a person to the point of his limitations and then – pfft! – break the limitation.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
William Stafford
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
Joseph Stalin
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Luther Standing Bear (Sioux writer, 1868-1939)
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.
Amelia Stanelle teacher
People will always forget what you do, and they will always forget what you say, but they will never, ever forget the way you make them feel.
Freya Stark
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Roger Staubach
Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
E.W. Steacie
One of the most disturbing slogans of the day is “education is everybody’s business.” That everyone should support education is, of course, undeniable; the theory that everyone should regard himself as an expert in education is, however, and unfortunate one.
Gertrude Stein
Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you got that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they loose their common sense.
John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968)
She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten facts but only three who created in me a new thing, a new attitude, a new hunger. I suppose that to a large extent I am the unsigned manuscript of that high school teacher. What deathless power lies in the hand of such a person.
Book are the best friends you can have. They inform, enlighten, entertain and don’t talk back.
Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
There are many more people trying to meet the right person than to become the right person.
It’s clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Henry Lewis Stimson ( U.S. Secretary of State 1867–1950)
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Mary Baroness Stocks (1891 – 1975)
Today we enjoy a social structure which offers equal opportunity in education. It is indeed regrettably true that there is no equal opportunity to take advantage of the equal opportunity. Still More Commonplace 1973
Jennifer Stone
A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Meryl Streep
I have always regarded myself as the the pillar of my life.
Annie Sullivan (1866-1936) Teacher of the deaf
My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Ben Sweetland
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Charles Swindoll “The Strong Family”
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Publilius Syrus
No man is happy unless he believes he is.