William Watson Purkey famous quotes

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.
-- William Watson Purkey

#School #Achievement #Attendance

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Mother #Mistake #Father

Speak from the heart to be heard.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Heart #Speak #Heard

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Heaven #Listening #Earth

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt
-- William Watson Purkey

#Hurt #Like You

Love like you'll never be hurt..
-- William Watson Purkey

#Hurt #Like You

A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Education #Jobs #School

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Waiting #Human Potential #Humans

No act of kindness is wasted.
-- William Watson Purkey

#Kindness #Acts Of Kindness

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.