SA4 - Professional Insights Journal

Week 1 - January 8, 2005

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."  

Horace Mann (1796-1859) -- I found this quote on p. 91 of Administrative Office Management, 12th Edition, written by Pattie Odgers, Ed.D., and B. Lewis Keeling. I was unsuccessful in my attempts to find the original source.

Week  2 - January 15, 2005

"The day we stop playing is the day we stop learning."

William Glasser, M.D., Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, HarperPerennial Edition, p. 41

Week 3 - January 22, 2005

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Seen on a poster.

Week 4 - January 29, 2005

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC). Found at The Quotations Page (www.quotationspage.com)

Week 5 - February 5, 2005

"Know what you can enforce and at what level you can enforce it. That gives you confidence and credibility. Credibility, which is rooted in the Latin word credo, meaning 'I believe,' begins and ends with your use of words."

George J. Thompson, Ph.D., and Jerry B. Jenkins, Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion, Quill Edition, p. 94.

Week 6 - February 12, 2005

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland

Week 7 - February 19, 2005

"'When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once your make your choice, do it with all your spirit.'"

Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, p. 133, quoting the character Socrates.

Week 8 - February 26, 2005

"I like to think of a man trying to get boys to come under good influence as a fisherman wishful to catch fish.

"If a fisherman bait his hook with the kind of food that he likes himself it is probable that he will not catch many-certainly not the shy, game kind of fish. He therefore uses as bait the food that the fish likes.

"So with boys; if you try to preach to them what you consider elevating matter, you won't catch them. Any obvious 'goody-goody' will scare away the more spirited among them, and those are the ones you want to get hold of. The only way is to hold out something that really attracts and interests them."

Lord Robert S. Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (1857-1941) in Aids to Scoutmastership  located online at http://www.pinetreeweb.com/aidstosm-3.htm

Week 9 - March 5, 2005

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -
That myth is more potent than history,
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience -
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death."

Robert Fulghum, author, found on his website at http://www.robertfulghum.com/

Week 10 - March 12, 2005

"Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so "till he tried."
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

"Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it."
But he took off his coat and took off his hat
And the first thing he knew he'd begun it.
With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

"There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done, and you'll do it."

Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959)