Calm

"Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!."  - William Wordsworth -

Knowledge

"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it."  - Sudie Back -

Now

"I want it now, Daddy"

Patience

"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!"  - Abraham Lincoln -

Exploration

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive at where we started

And know the place for the first time."  - T. S. Eliot -

Children

"Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today."  - Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean teacher -

Success

"There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"  - Colin Powell -

Attention

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."  - Henry Miller -

Home

"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there."  - G. K. Chesterton -

Change

"To seldom speak is the essence of nature. Why the winds and storm do not last whole day? Because the earth that manifests the winds and storm is constantly changing."  - Laozi Tao Te Chin, 4th Century BC -

Enquiry

"We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.  - Peter Senge -

You

"The best camera is the one that's with you."  - Chase Jarvis -

Vote

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the votes decide everything."  - Joseph Stalin -

Involve

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."  - Benjamin Franklin -

Friends, happy teachers day!

Gone

"You don't know what you got till it's gone."  - Joni Mitchell from They Paved Paradise -

Faith

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."  - Blaise Pascal -