Results Now Schmoker Quotes

#1. We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Mike Schmoker

#2. For the first time the specific and express thought came to him. And though he pushed it away in horror, he knew that, having once come, it would return. The thought was simply this: That he would ruin Eternity, if he had to. The worst of it was that he knew he had the power to do it.

Isaac Asimov

#3. In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Mike Schmoker

#4. The research we do at the local level - collaboratively - is what makes formal, outside research work. Outside research cannot be installed like a car part - it has to be fitted, adjusted, and refined for the school contexts we workd in.

Mike Schmoker

#5. The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

Han Fei

#6. A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

William Stafford

#7. Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Patti Smith

#8. The next day,' I'd conclude, 'when we'd returned safely to base camp, ice flowers had formed on the newly frozen sea, sculptured blooms like those waxen wreaths in the cemeteries of home.

Beryl Bainbridge