At its best, writing has helped transform the world. Revolutions have been started by it. Oppression has been toppled by it. And it has enlightened the human condition. American life has been richer because people like Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King, Jr., have given voice to the aspirations of the nation and its people.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do we know this is the experience we need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
The most radical thing you can do in this lifetime is teach students well
"Many young people underperform in classes not because the content is too challenging but because it is challenging to bend yourself to an approach to instruction that is so ordinary when your life outside the classroom is extraordinary."- Street Data
"Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself."
"What issues are most urgent of your pen?"
Every Little Movement has a Meaning of It's Own
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves-and be free.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it!
Sometimes you never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Wherever you are, it is the people that make the world
In a gentle way, you can shake the world - Ghandi
I can change the world and make it a better place. It is in our hands to make a difference.
The Journey of One Thousand Miles begins with One Step
The best time for new beginnings...is now
It's the imperfections that keep us alive!
Everything we need to innovate is already with us, we need only look up.
For those whose lives begin with significant hardship, a broad web of supportive relationships is vital to enable their growth and propel their success.
The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.
Letting go of our preconceptions often allows us to see the world as it really is and discover what it can be.
Our ability to achieve the extraordinary is often constrained by the limits that we place on our own thoughts.
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once we grow up.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
All children are gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times.
What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
