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 July 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!

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
~ Doug Larson

In every phenomenon, the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
~ Thomas Carlyle

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~ G. K. Chesterton

The true teacher defends her/his pupils against her/his own personal influence.
~ A. B. Alcott

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
~ Gail Goodwin

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
~ Charles Schulz

You ain’t learnin’ nothin’ when you’re talkin’.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson

True professional growth is the acquiring of both professional attitudes and skills – and moving to new levels of performance not experienced before.
~ Robert L. DeBruyn

No just cause can be advanced by terrorism.
~ Koffi Anan

What you cannot enforce do not command.
~ Sophocles

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~ B. F. Skinner

Rules should be created to serve students, rather than designed so that students serve the rules.
~ Robert L. DeBruyn

We must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us – for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
~ Louis Nizer

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~ Samuel Johnson

Just because you’re in the driver’s seat, it doesn’t mean you have to run people over.
~ Randy Pausch

The unfinished is nothing.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
~ Ellen Glasgow

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
~ Aristotle

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
~ Jack Kinder

Smart is believing only half of what you hear. Brilliant is knowing which half to believe.
~ Unknown

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison

Your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.
~ Randy Pausch

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~ Elizabeth Lawrence

No person was ever honored for what s/he received. Honor has been the reward for what s/he gave.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Knowledge . . . and thankfulness will lead to abundant joy in our everyday life.
~ David Havard