Schlechty Quotes

#1. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#2. If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

Phillip C. Schlechty

#3. The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

Phillip C. Schlechty

#4. We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Robert E.Lee

#5. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#7. He thrust into me as if he were trying to climb into my soul.

T.M. Frazier

#8. Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

John Vianney

#9. Shared leadership ... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.

Phillip C. Schlechty

#10. You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.

Daphne Oz