Mar. 21, 2008 Friday Food for Thought
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt |
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Mar. 14, 2008 Food for Thought
I know my words cannot honor Him according to His merits: I wish they could. Indeed, I grow less and less satisfied with my thoughts and language concerning Him. He is too glorious for my feeble language to describe Him. If I could speak with the tongues of men and of angels, I could not speak worthily of Him. If I could borrow all the harmonies of heaven, and enlist every harp and song of the glorified, yet were not the music sweet enough for His praises.”
--Charles Spurgeon |
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Feb. 29, 2008 Friday Food for Thought
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
-- Carl Rogers |
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Feb. 25, 2007 Quote of the Week
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
--Erma Bombeck |
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Feb. 23, 2007 Quote of the Week Feb. 5, 2007 Quote of the Week
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Nelson Mandela |
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Dec. 21, 2006 Quote of the Week
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
--Agnes M. Pharo |
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Dec. 11, 2006 Quote of the Week Oct. 19, 2006 Quote of the Week
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oct. 8, 2006 Quote of the Week
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill |
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Aug. 6, 2006 Quote of the Week
The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.
- - Jean Piaget |
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Jul. 28, 2006 Quote of the Week
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
--Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) |
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Jul. 14, 2006 Quote of the Week
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
--Arthur O'Shaunessey |
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Jul. 14, 2006 Quirky Quote of the Week Jul. 7, 2006 Quote of the Week Apr. 22, 2006 Quote of the Week
I have no patience with the stupidity of the average teacher of grammar who wastes precious years in hammering rules into children's heads. For it is not by learning rules that we acquire the power of speaking a language, but by daily intercourse with those accustomed to express themselves with exactness and refinement, and by the copious reading of the best authors.
--Erasmus, "Upon the Right Method of Instruction." |
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Apr. 14, 2006 Quote of the Week Apr. 6, 2006 Quote of the Week Mar. 31, 2006 Quote of the Week
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."
--A. Einstein |
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Feb. 18, 2006 Quirky Quote of the Week
| "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love (Thanks Linda!) |
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