Awe is what moves us forward.
Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.
That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.
The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ. " It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important
I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.
I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up. And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig. However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated. . . they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.
If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate me, I don't care.
Focusing on solutions fuels progress.