Quotes

•  Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do. Piaget.

• All children are artists, the problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up. Pablo Picasso.

• Children learn best when their individual differences are taken into consideration. 

 

• A subject is learned better when pupils can see the connections between one subject and another.

• It's not just what you do but the way you do it.  

• To get where you want to go, you need to know where you're going.  

• The road may not always be easy but wee need to be there to support and guide our learners as much as possible on their journey.  

• To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. Chinese proverb.

• Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know. Czech proverb.

• The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. Alexandra K Trenfor.

• It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted. Linda Conway.

• A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupil. Ever Garrison.

• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn form the learner; put yourself in their place so that you understand what he learns and the way he understands it. Soren Kierkgaard.

• We can think of ourselves not as teachers but as gardeners. A gardener does not grow flowers, he tries to give them what he thinks they need and they grow by themselves. John Holt.

• Teaching provides a way to stay young at heart, to maintain a lifetime of active learning... It is, in every respect, a profession of hope. Vito Perrone.

• Play is not a break from learning. It's the way young children learn.

• I speak to everyone in the same way, wether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. Albert Einstein.

• The true master approaches the teaching of every class as if it is his first.

• The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut.