101.0001Quotes

These are quotes collected by students in EDU 101 at University of Maine at Farmington. __Directions:__ 1. Write your quote. Put quotation marks around it. 2. Put the name of the author and the source. 3. Write "contributed by: " and then your name. (Just use your first name and last initial.) 4. Insert a horizontal line below your entry.

1. “Do or do not, there is not try.”-- Yoda. Contributed by Angelisa Beane

5. "Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they do not know what happened on either occasion." --Mark Twain. Contributed By: Rachel J.

"As you can see I've memorized this utterly useless fact long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system." -Bill Waterson

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."- William Arthur Ward, contributed by: Delaney Fone

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -A.A. Milne, contributed by: Ben Pearson

"Always walk through life as if you have something to learn and you will" - Vernon Howard, contributed by: Tori Bohren

"The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed." ~Marva Collins, contributed by: Amy Jones

"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." ~Ignacio Estrada : Darrin Wood

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure." ~Quoted in //P. S. I Love You//, contributed by: Sarah Freitag

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teacher, but with gratitude to those who touches our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." - Carl Jung, contributed by: Rebecca Tanous

"Too many of my students have decided that math is a weird irrelevant game with arbitrary rules that are known only to strange old people whose hands are stained by dry-erase marker. From my experience, nothing works quite as well to disabuse them of that impression than putting them in a place to accidentally invent that game themselves." ~ Dan Meyer, on his blog dy/dan posted on 05/13/2010 contributed by: Simone T.

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards" -Anatole France, contributed by: Kelsey Piche

“You teach best what you need to learn”- Richard Bach, Contributed by: Ben S

"If we don't learn our history, we're doomed to repeat it." -Every good history teacher, Contributed by: Spencer H.

"Without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."- Horace Mann Contributed by Bob .B

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- Henry Brooks Adams Contributed by: Elizabeth Sargent

“Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. ANYTHING. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.”- Lebron James Contributed by Chris Whitney

"The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits." Mike Krzyzewski =Contributed by Sam Leal=

"Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way" -Abraham Lincoln Contributed by Connor Hasson ___

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the must patient of teachers" -Charles W. Eliot Contributed by Amber Allen