"Take charge of your environment."

-- Marshall Sylver

#Environment Quotes #Our Environment Quotes

“With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.”
“One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. Itâ€™s my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.”
“That which you fear the most will meet you half way.”
“As I grow older, I constantly learn more.”
“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”
“I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!”
“At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.”
“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”

Source : "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

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