"I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius."

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Source : Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

Thomas Armstrong

#Believe Quotes #Genius Quotes #Levels Quotes

“One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.”
“Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.”
“All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".”
“The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.”
“Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.”
“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33
“I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”

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