"We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second."

-- Will Richardson

#Teaching Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.”
“Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.”
“Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.”
“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”
“Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.”
“The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.”
“There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform”
“All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.”

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