Esme Raji Codell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused. You can't test what sort of teacher someone will be, because testing what someone knows isn't the same as what someone is able to share.
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Teacher #Jobs #Confused
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Mad #Imagination #Form
If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Thinking #Play #Ideas
But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Jobs #Children #Moving
The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Ideas #Goal #Trying
A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!
-- Esme Raji Codell

#Space #Library #Platforms

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.
I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

Esme Raji Codell famous quotes

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