Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation selected especially for educators, referred to as an "Apple Seed," on the main chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of June are compiled here...

Be sure to use the Printable link following this list to print out an attractive poster worthy of sharing with teachers and school administrators, and to file for use as a reference tool whenever you need a great quotation!

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is to be educated.
~ Edith Hamilton

It is one thing to show a person that s/he is in error, and another to put her/him in possession of truth.
~ John Locke

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
~ A. Whitney Griswold

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money – in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
~ Bel Kauffman

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~ Henry Ford

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. Good luck!
~ General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 06 June 1944

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~ William Butler Yeats

Learning is discovering that something is possible.
~ Fritz Perls

Lost time is never found again.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Study the past if you would divine the future.
~ Confucius

The best prophet of the future is the past.
~ Lord Byron

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
~ Woodrow Wilson

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
~ Pope John XXIII

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
~ the Buddha

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
~ John Finley

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~ Bern Williams

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
~ Martin Van Buren

The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
~ Alvin Toffler

The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
~ George Savile

The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Never cut what you can untie.
~ Joseph Joubert

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
~ Lord Samuel

We should try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
~ John Steinbeck

The thing we run from is the thing we run to.
~ Dr. Richard Anthony

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.
~ Martin Haberman

Printable "Apple Seeds" in pdf format

Discussion for:
Apple Seeds, July 2008
Barb Stutesman (July 2008 Gazette)

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