"Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated."

-- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.”
“When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.”
“I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God”
“Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.”
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”
“We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.7, Da Capo Press
“Are we going buck-naked, or are we wearing like a bathing suit?”
“Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.”

Source : "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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