MrGray.id.au » Quotes http://mrgray.id.au Mr Gray's teaching related blog: news, resources and ideas for teachers Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:22:26 +0000 en hourly 1 Get with the times http://mrgray.id.au/2012/01/get-with-the-times/ http://mrgray.id.au/2012/01/get-with-the-times/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:37:15 +0000 Mr Gray http://mrgray.id.au/?p=1016

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Chinese Proverb

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Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein.

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Don’t worry if your grades are low

And your rewards are few.

Remember that the mighty oak

Was once a nut like you.

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‘A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.’

- Anonymous

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Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.

- Thomas Dewar

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‘Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.’

- Tom Peters

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‘Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.’

- William Allin

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If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.

- Donald D. Quinn

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Teachers open the door.

You enter by yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

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Pressing ’25′ on the photocopier was NEVER a way to challenge and engage students.

Grab a Poster or a PDF

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