Category: Quotes for Staff
Everyone is a Genius
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.
A Stretched Mind
‘A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.’
- Anonymous
Open Parachutes
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar
Photo Source: Flickr
Leaders Create…
‘Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.’
- Tom Peters
Answer the Question
‘Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.’
- William Allin
The Classroom Teacher’s Job
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
How to engage students
Pressing ’25′ on the photocopier was NEVER a way to challenge and engage students.
Classroom Posters
I picked up this site, again via Twitter, last night > Poster Street.
You can create your own posters, or download some of the ones they have already on their site.
I quite liked this poster.
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Just noticed also they have Certificate Street.
What score did you get?
“Never treat a student’s test score as a synonym for what a student has learned.” – Joe Bower







