What is your “go-to” educational quote that you find yourself going back to?

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Rita Pierson: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'"

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Absolutely so true.

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I thought I attached my quote the first time but I’m not sure if I did. Gotta love technology (or myself for messing it up!).

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"Speak from your core beliefs and not from the day you had."

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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

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For students:
"Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus (Greek slave who became a philosopher)

For me personally:
"Teach every student as if they had your last name."

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

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The quote that I have attached to my email is "Knowledge is Power". I am always emphasizing to my students to learn everything that they can.

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"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" is a quote by Henry Ford