Brookfield's Quotes

#1. Failure or success is not a mistake but a result

Ikechukwu Joseph

#2. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

Gilbert Highet

#3. What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000

Wavy Gravy

#4. Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Stephen Brookfield

#5. The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

Stephen Brookfield

#6. That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?

Ken Paulson

#7. My own existence as a teacher is one of sustained epistemological demolition

Stephen Brookfield

#8. Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#9. Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

Adam Young

#10. The best learners ... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

Stephen Brookfield

#11. Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#12. I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Whitley Strieber

#13. You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Adelaide Kane

#14. We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

Stephen Brookfield

#15. Obstacles are a test of determination. You can choose to let them stop you or you can plow through them.

Tessa Brookfield

#16. You never can take for granted that you have a job.

Benjamin Walker

#17. Trust your sacred-soul. It is truest divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. perverts copping a feel

No One

#19. The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Roger Goodell

#20. Brookfield will never forget his lovableness, said Cartwright, in a speech to the School. Which was absurd, because all things are forgotten in the end.

James Hilton

#21. Don't ever give up on your dreams. When you finally stop chasing and grab hold, you can make great things happen. Let your determination take over, and you will be amazed at where it takes you. Your dreams are always within reach, as long as you believe.

Tessa Brookfield