Four

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist has forty 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

Three

Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom

Education is light, lack of it darkness. – Russian proverb

Two

The only way to help kids become generous, responsible people and lifelong learners is to work with them to solve problems and make decisions. But that takes time. It also takes care, skill, and in some cases, courage because we have to reconsider the validity of our requests. We need to begin by thinking hard about what we’re asking kids to do: Who benefits from our requests? Is there another way? – Alfie Kohn

One

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. – Ethel Barrymore

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. – Sara Teasdale


180 Days of School

This blog is a collection of quotes and quotations about school, education, teaching, teachers, and children as students. The idea is to post a quote or two every day for 180 days, the length of a typical school year in the United States.