TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Education, Teaching, Teachers
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Books are great! They're so easy to rewind. Just close the book and you're right back at the beginning.
Coming to school every day can become a hopeless task for some children unless they succeed at what they do. We teachers are the sentries against that hopelessness.
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
"Education
is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler
Yeats
Eroding self-esteem is much easier than building it. We need to be the searchers of strength rrather than the searchers of weakness.
"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder . . . he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." Rachel Carson
". . . it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it." Jane Austen, 1775 - 1817
"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail." Taylor Caldwell, American writer
"Sixth grade
gone
You led him
To the last
Of a little boy's world
With care
On a road of hope
Opening doors
To a world of infinite
Small steps
Into independence you gave
Allowing him soon to run
Life's race of all he can become
Tomorrow with many steps taken
The man will yearn
For the little boy
And will remember you
Sixth grade gone
You led him
To the last of a little boy's world
John Wood, June, 1995
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
"To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert
We have to remember that for a young person to travel against the grain takes courage. That kind of fortitude needs recognition and nurturing.