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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE
Volume 3 Number 3

COVER STORY
Harry & Rosemary Wong ask, "Is it possible that a school district would have no openings at a time of worldwide teacher shortages? But more importantly, why were there no openings in the Medford School District?"...
COLUMNS
Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon
Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
Online Classrooms by Leslie Bowman
The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
Around the Block by Cheryl Ristow
Ask the Literacy Teacher by Leigh Hall
Instant Ideas for Busy Teachers by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber
ARTICLES
Every Day is Read Across America Day!
Music is...
Ten Pennies and Ten Dimes
Swinging on the Education Pendulum
Literature Circles
Internet Based Interaction in the Classroom
Intelligence
How to Create A Bad Acceptable Use Policy Document (And Have It Survive)!
Safety on College Campuses
The Montessori Mystery
Playing Baseball in the Classroom - A Flexible, Adaptable Game to Motivate Your Students
Whither Not Social Studies!
When Bright Kids Say, "I'm Bored!"
Book Review: Comprehension Instruction
Teacher Social Groups
Retaining Principals
TEACHER INSPIRATION FEATURE
Today I Learned
ON-SITE GEMS
Things You NEVER Thought You'd Have to Say…or Hear
What Was Your Most Unforgettable Show and Tell?
ON-SITE INSIGHTS
How Do You Deal With Middle School Students' Apathy?
OPINION
Why Reading Scores Across the Nation Have Declined
REGULAR FEATURES
Apple Seeds
Special Days This Month
Poem - Searching for the Gold
The Lighter Side of Teaching
  • YENDOR'S Top Ten
  • A Challenging Foot Feat
  • Schoolies
  • Woodhead
  • Handy Teacher Recipes
    Classroom Crafts
    Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs
    Featured Lesson from the Lesson Bank
  • Here Comes the Train
  • Upcoming Ed Conferences
    Letters to the Editor
    Chatboard Poll, What changes has your district made in an effort to raise test scores?
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    Apple Seeds...

    by Barb Erickson


    Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspriring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard. In each issue of the Gazette we'll post a compilation of the seeds from the previous month.
    January 2002

    01-01:
    No one ever regarded the first day of January with indifference.
    ~ Charles Lamb

    01-02:
    Learn to say "no" to the good so you can say "yes" to the best.
    ~ Unknown

    01-03:
    It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
    ~ John Wooden

    01-04:
    Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
    ~ Mahatma Gandhi

    01-05:
    Fantasy is a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope . . . and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
    ~ Theodor S. Geisel

    01-06:
    There is no security in this life, only opportunity.
    ~ Douglas MacArthur

    01-07:
    Only a fool spits on a griddle.
    ~ Dan Butler

    01-08:
    I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet I am ungrateful to those teachers.
    ~ Kahlil Gibran

    01-09:
    A person who tosses worms into the river isn't necessarily a friend to the fish.
    ~ Malcolm X

    01-10:
    Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
    ~ Oliver Goldsmith

    01-11:
    The person who views the world at fifty the same way as s/he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of her/his life.
    ~ Muhammad Ali

    01-12:
    The minority is always wrong -- at the beginning.
    ~ Herbert V. Prochnow

    01-13:
    In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
    ~ Albert Camus

    01-14:
    The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
    ~ Benjamin Disraeli

    01-15:
    It is the biggest mistake in the world to think you are working for someone else.
    ~ Unknown

    01-16:
    When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    ~ Mae West

    01-17:
    Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
    ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

    01-18:
    Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
    ~ Robert Benchley

    01-19:
    The person who is always declaring s/he's no fool usually has her/his suspicions.
    ~ Wilson Mizner

    01-20:
    When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.
    ~ African saying

    01-21:
    The ultimate measure of a person is not where s/he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where s/he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    01-22:
    What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
    ~ Alanis Morisette

    01-23:
    I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
    ~ Anatole France

    01-24:
    Anything that begins, "I don't know how to tell you this" is never good news.
    ~ Ruth Gordon

    01-25:
    Ambidextrous means being clumsy with both hands.
    ~ Gene Hardison

    01-26:
    A child is being properly educated only when s/he is learning to become independent of her/his parents.
    ~ Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

    01-27:
    The fingers must be educated; the thumb is born knowing.
    ~ Chazal

    01-28:
    Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
    ~ Mark Twain

    01-29:
    Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse while it is leaping.
    ~ Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare

    01-30:
    A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
    ~ Kate Samperi

    01-31:
    Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with, perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    ~ Anne Sullivan


    February 2002

    02-01:
    To the uneducated, an "A" is just three sticks.
    ~ A. A. Milne

    02-02:
    Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
    ~ Robert F. Kennedy

    02-03:
    Yesterday is a canceled check: forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: don't count on it. Today is ready cash: use it!
    ~ Edwin C. Bliss

    02-04:
    It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
    ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

    02-05:
    When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
    ~ Ernest Hemingway

    02-06:
    Don't dig a pit you might fall into yourself.
    ~ Dan Butler

    02-07:
    The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
    ~ Nan Fairbrother

    02-08:
    The beginning of a child's education is a parent's expectations of a child's ability. A child not expected to learn doesn't learn well.
    ~ Robert Riley

    02-09:
    To be able to be caught up in the world of thought – that is being educated.
    ~ Edith Hamilton

    02-10:
    Education doesn't cost . . . it pays.
    ~ Albert Einstein

    02-11:
    The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
    ~ Sydney J. Harris

    02-12:
    The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    02-13:
    The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    02-14:
    Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
    ~ Lao-Tzu

    02-15:
    I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
    ~ Chinese proverb

    02-16:
    Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
    ~ James Mason Wood

    02-17:
    Education is helping the child realize her or his potentialities.
    ~ Erich Fromm

    02-18:
    The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
    ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins

    02-19:
    Humankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
    ~ United Nations Resolution

    02-20:
    We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip people to walk through those doors.
    ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

    02-21:
    There is nothing insignificant.
    ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    02-22:
    Trees seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
    ~ Willa Cather

    02-23:
    A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
    ~ Robert Bolton

    02-24:
    Let thy speech be better than thy silence, or be silent.
    ~ Dionysius the Elder

    02-25:
    Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
    ~ Seneca

    02-26:
    You can tell more about a person by what s/he says about others than you can by what others say about her/him.
    ~ Unknown

    02-27:
    There will be times when the trees will be bare; let us look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
    ~ Peter Seller

    2-28:
    The beginning is the most important part of the work.
    ~ Plato

     

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