It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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1 It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " Alvin Toffler Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world." Neil degrasse Tyson "Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. Cassandra Clare, City of Bones The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective,... Pain and joy without limits. Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas The adolescent knows that the child is lurking under the surface, but he'd sooner die than let it out, and I was no different. David Eddings Adolescence is, among other things, a strange blend of heightened consciousness and dramatic unconsciousness. S Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives. Asa Don Brown Youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. Zack W. Van

2 I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower for children, play is serious learning. Mr. Rogers Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become than what you are. Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Our students won t care about what we want them to learn until they know we care about them. Nancy Doda What year is your curriculum preparing your students for REALLY? Heidi Hayes-Jacobs Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr. The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. Merlin in The Once and Future King by T.H. White

3 The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. Aristotle Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational. Charles M. Schulz Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

4 Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. Plato I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain, Notebook In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. Charles M. Schulz Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. Confucius

5 "Minds are the real estate of the 21st century." Chuck D Do you plan to be alive or dead when your vision for education is realized? Doug Snow, Apple Will my child graduate with a 21stcentury resume, or a 19th-century transcript? Mark Moran "The quality of relationships students have with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school." Bob Pletka (Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century) "You shouldn t go through life with a catcher s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou "If you can read in the 21st century you own the world." Stephen King "We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas." Susan George "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail Ralph Waldo Emerson While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." Apple Inc. "Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves." Ken Robinson