Curiosity
"If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often. Children are natural...
Souls for sale
"And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?" -Mark 8:36 I feel sorry for folks who corrupt themselves to...
Integrity
"But not a snitch! He won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that, my friends, is called integrity. That's called courage. Now...
Where does the path lead?
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't be so obsessed...
Fight
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan Never give up without a fight. Never...
Lighting of a fire
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -William Butler Yeats Should we not evoke passion and interest in a...
What Teachers Make
(http://www.taylormali.com/poems-online/what-teachers-make/) "I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+...
Understand
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ― Edmund Burke Don't just memorize or swallow page after page of...
Their lives a mimicry...
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar...
Interest. Passion.
"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting...
