"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."
"I suppose you are all wondering why I asked you here today." ----------------------------------- "Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them." Gail Sweet
This is from the play A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. Two characters, Sir Thomas More and Richard Rich are having a conversation- MORE: But, Richard, in office they offer you all sorts of things. I was once offered a whole village, with a mill, and a manor house, and heaven knows what else-a coat of arms, I shouldn't be surprised. Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps even a great one. RICH: And if I was, who would know it? MORE: You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that…
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -Gearge Bernard Shaw
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill." -W.C. Fields
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"Class, your job is to make me look good."
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
To my class when I'm ready to begin..."It's all about me!"
Famous movie quotes often used in my classroom
"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor"-John Belushi
"Wisconsin, I got the #@$#% kicked out of me in Wisconsin once." -Harold Ramis - Stripes
Your my boy BLUE - Will Farrell, Old School
"So I says, Hey LAMA how about a little something for the effort." Bill Murray - Caddyshack
And what I always tell my players on the basketball court "Don't think, it will only hurt the Ball Club." Kevin Costner in Bull Durham
I realize I don't really have a favorite quote. Here are two I found online that cut it for me:
" Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
- Mary Satton (whoever she might be!)
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it!"
attributed to Mary W Little (whoever she is!)
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"I suppose you are all wondering why I asked you here today."
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"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them."
Gail Sweet
This is from the play A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. Two characters, Sir Thomas More and Richard Rich are having a conversation-
MORE: But, Richard, in office they offer you all sorts of things. I was once offered a whole village, with a mill, and a manor house, and heaven knows what else-a coat of arms, I shouldn't be surprised. Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps even a great one.
RICH: And if I was, who would know it?
MORE: You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that…
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-Gearge Bernard Shaw
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill."
-W.C. Fields
"Kind words do not cost much...Yet they accomplish much." - Blaise Pascal
No man needs a vacation more than the one that has just taken one.
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vacinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
"It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."
Jean Webster
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