Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation selected especially for educators, referred to as an "Apple Seed," on the main chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of July are compiled here...

Be sure to use the Printable link following this list to print out an attractive poster worthy of sharing with teachers and school administrators, and to file for use as a reference tool whenever you need a great quotation!

Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.
~ Chinese proverb

The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it.
~ John Peter Flynn

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James

The only people who never fail are those who never try.
~ Ilka Chase

Don’t cry over things that can’t cry over you.
~ Native American proverb

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with right in America.
~ William J. Clinton

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~ Mary Engelbreit

Swifter, higher, stronger.
~ Olympic Motto

Readiness is the key to all important passages in life.
~ Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hagerty

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
~ Shirley Hufstedler

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
~ Sir John Lubbock

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

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

The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think.
~ John Dewey

A good teacher has been defined as one who makes her/himself progressively unnecessarily.
~ Thomas J. Carruthers

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
~ Roger Lewin

A self-taught person usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
~ Henny Youngman

Much that passes for education is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
~ David P. Gardner

The self-taught person seldom knows anything accurately, and s/he does not know a tenth as much as s/he could have known if s/he had worked under teachers.
~ Mark Twain

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your opposite hand. and then remember that a child is all opposite hand.
~ J. F. Boyse

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.
~ Patrick White

The object of teaching a child is to enable her/him to get along without her/his teacher.
~ Elbert Hubbard

America’s future walks through the doors of our schools each day.
~ Mary Jean Le Tendre

A self-taught person usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
~ Henny Youngman

Much that passes for education is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
~ David P. Gardner

The self-taught person seldom knows anything accurately, and s/he does not know a tenth as much as s/he could have known if s/he had worked under teachers.
~ Mark Twain

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your opposite hand. and then remember that a child is all opposite hand.
~ J. F. Boyse

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.
~ Patrick White

The object of teaching a child is to enable her/him to get along without her/his teacher.
~ Elbert Hubbard

America’s future walks through the doors of our schools each day.
~ Mary Jean Le Tendre

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that’s wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
~ John Williams

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
~ Jacob Bronowski

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Derek Bok

The eggs do not teach the hen.
~ Russian proverb

I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
~ Winston Churchill

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others.
~ Mark Twain

Teaching is kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
~ Anne Sexton

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.
~ J. Graham

Printable "Apple Seeds" in pdf format