Lilian Katz Quotes

#1. We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

Lilian Katz

#2. In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.

Lilian Katz

#3. Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Dierks Bentley

#4. When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

Lilian Katz

#5. Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

#6. When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won't. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

Lilian Katz

#7. Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Elmore Leonard

#8. Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

Lilian Katz

#9. Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation
reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

Lilian Katz

#10. I never saw his wife, not then, nor at any other time. I do not know what color her hair was.

Neil Gaiman

#11. In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Lilian Katz

#12. All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

Lilian Katz

#13. Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Lilian Katz

#14. Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

Lilian Katz

#15. True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

John C. Calhoun

#16. She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

E. M. Forster

#17. Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

Lilian Katz

#18. Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

Travis Bradberry

#19. In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

Narendra Modi

#20. Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Lilian Katz

#21. Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

Lilian Katz

#22. Movies are romantic fantasies.

Ira Sachs

#23. True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

Eli Siegel

#24. had become friends and met often

Erik Larson

#25. The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Gloria Steinem