by Barb Erickson

Su, 09-01:
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~ Sidney Hook

Mo, 09-02:
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a marker or a building.
~ A. Bartlett Giamati

Tu, 09-03:
The true teacher defends her/his students against her/his own prejudices. S/He inspires self-distrust. S/He guides their eyes from her/himself to the spirit that quickens her/him. S/He will have no disciple.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott

We, 09-04:
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
~ Dr. Maria Montessori

Th, 09-05:
Peace is always beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman

Fr, 09-06:
Persuasion is better than force.
~ Unknown

Sa, 09-07:
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~ Seneca

Su, 09-08:
What greater or better gift can we offer than to teach and instruct our youth?
~ Cicero

Mo, 09-09:
Education is the transmission of civilization.
~ Will and Ariel Durant

Tu, 09-10:
Insist on miracles -- you can make them come true.
~ Unknown

We, 09-11:
The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
~ Olympia Snowe

Th, 09-12:
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~ William Shakespeare

Fr, 09-13:
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Sa, 09-14:
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
~ Hortense Callisher

Su, 09-15:
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -- that is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mo, 09-16:
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
~ William Shakespeare

Tu, 09-17:
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
~ Beatrice Wood

We, 09-18:
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream.
~ James Allen

Th, 09-19:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of theirdreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Fr, 09-20:
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware -- joyously, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller

Sa, 09-21:
There's not a minute of our lives should stretch without some pleasure now.
~ William Shakespeare

Su, 09-22:
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mo, 09-23:
Over all the sky -- the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.
~ Walt Whitman

Tu, 09-24:
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
~ Cynthia Nelms

We, 09-25:
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Th, 09-26:
And we are put on earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
~ William Blake

Fr, 09-27:
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin

Sa, 09-28:
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what s/he gets for it, but what s/he becomes by it.
~ John Ruskin

Su, 09-29:
The work of an individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
~ Igor Stravinsky

Mo, 09-30:
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison