Educator Quotes

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.