Special Educator Quotes

#1. O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#2. Books are the ammunition of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. To understand the truth of history, you must lend one ear to the conqueror, yet two to the vanquished.

Kyle West

#4. Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

Sam Kean

#5. The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Tom Burke

#6. Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.

Loraine Hutchins

#7. We educators stand at a special point in time

Robert J. Marzano

#8. Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

Zachary Cole Smith

#9. Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

Alvin O'Konski