Quotes

Children are often criticized for "not paying attention". There is no such thing as not paying attention; the brain is always paying attention to something. What we really mean is that the child or student is not paying attention to what we think is relevant or important. Attention, as all of us know, is selective.

                                                                                                         Patricia Wolfe       

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

                                               

                                                                                                         Ken Robinson

The human species seems to have a relationship imperative: We desire and seek out relationships with others, and we have personal needs that can be satisfied only through interacting with other humans. Career success, family success, friendships, and companionships all depend on building and maintaining relationships with other people. In fact, the most distinctive aspect of being alive is the potential for joy, fun, excitement, caring, warmth and personal fulfillment in our relationships with other people.

                                                                                                         David Johnson

What children can do together today, they can do alone tomorrow.

                                                                                                          Vygotsky

What you do about what you don't know is, in the final analysis, what determines what you will ultimately know. 

                                                                                                          Eleanor Duckworth

We must move to ways of thinking, and to plans and programs by which teachers reflect on themselves as knowing, teaching beings. 

                                                                                                  Teacher Education in Onatrio 

Cooperative learning communities that develop the capacity of young people to reflect upon the quality of their interactions, to candidly critique the here-and-now situation, to determine needed changes, and to take meaningful action together would be a magnificent resource for our field to give the world. What if hundreds of thousands of people so internalized the reflection process for systems change that they carried it into their future families, neighborhood organizations and work groups?... I truly believe the cooperative learning movement has more to offer the children of tomorrow that we have yet realized.

                                                                                                          Jeanne Gibbs 

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 

                                                                                                           Albert Einstein 

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. 

                                                      

                                                                                                            Alexander Graham Bell

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. 

                                                                                                             Eleanor Roosevelt 

A good humored teacher conveys a sense of happiness, is quick to smile and find the funny in situations in a way that bring the teaching moment into focus. 

                                                                                                               Nan Bahr