tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55951022009-02-21T03:19:32.322-08:00TeacherBloggerTeacher,Teaching Stories, Kids, Values, and things that go bump in the night....Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1636584269868813072007-02-09T07:57:00.000-08:002007-02-06T17:22:19.839-08:00The obvious is not always the right answer...Posted on Thu, Feb. 08, 2007email thisprint thisreprint or license thisA SWEET DISCOVERY AT DISCOVERY PLACEMath prodigy corrects Discovery PlaceExhibit pulled after boy shows it doesn't add upPETER SMOLOWITZpsmolowitz@charlotteobserver.comPart of the new exhibit on candy has been removed from Discovery Place. And you can thank Parker Garrison.When the Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-68037782658428451952007-02-06T17:21:00.000-08:002007-02-06T17:22:20.042-08:002/6/07"You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care."-Marva CollinsKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1113506031160343392005-04-14T12:13:00.000-07:002005-04-14T12:13:51.160-07:00Parkway - Where we reinvent the wheel EVERYDAY! TOGETHER!Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1107549570485193372005-02-04T13:00:00.000-08:002005-02-04T12:39:30.486-08:00When we have to learn to do,
we learn by doing.
- Aristotle
As long as you live,
keep learning how to live.
- Seneca
It is no profit to have learned well,
if you neglect to do well.
- Publilius Syrus
A diamond is a lump of coal
that made good under pressure.
- Unknown
A School should not be a preparation for life.
A school should be life.
- Elbert Hubbard
Adversity cause some men to break
Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1102608661859088402004-12-09T08:10:00.000-08:002005-04-14T12:12:57.286-07:00As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. (Cokie Roberts)-------------------Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1090691670703834572004-07-24T10:53:00.000-07:002004-07-24T10:54:30.703-07:00Wear your learning,
like your watch,
in a private pocket:
and do not pull it out
and strike it,
merely to show
that you have one.
Earl of Chesterfield 1774
Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1090691556474334442004-07-24T10:51:00.000-07:002004-07-24T10:52:36.473-07:00Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams 1780
Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1086016270449387502004-05-31T08:10:00.000-07:002004-05-31T08:11:10.450-07:00There is IQ and I Will.
Education Quote Beatrice Skinner
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186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
EDUCATION Sticker Bumber
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Children have never been any good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
Education Quote James Baldwin
------Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1076975877259617722004-02-16T15:56:00.000-08:002004-02-16T15:59:50.903-08:00If a picture is worth a thousand words...what is a movie worth?
Ambrosia Software.....
---------------------------Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1066234549544226802003-10-15T09:14:00.000-07:002003-10-15T09:15:49.553-07:00Do you have a hammer? Can I borrow it to fix my computer? Thank..Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1063673470252796052003-09-15T17:51:00.000-07:002004-03-30T17:58:38.826-08:00Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Chanung Tzu (369 B.C.-286 B.C.)
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
(Anatole France)
No, try not! do or not do, there is no try.
(Yoda)
Teachers with 32 hours of training in using technology in the classroom are more likely to assign problem-solving tasks using those tooks than their colleagues with less or no training.
(National Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1061076566205760102003-08-16T16:29:00.000-07:002003-08-16T16:29:26.240-07:00It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~John Wooden
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1061065588562929932003-08-16T13:26:00.000-07:002003-08-16T13:26:28.586-07:00Teaching Quotes , Teaching Quotations, Teaching Sayings - Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings Network: "Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future a vision based on common values -- is only training.
--Nido Qubein
Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before the lesson.
--Vernon Law
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060737664219160862003-08-12T18:21:00.000-07:002003-08-12T18:21:04.253-07:00INSP102- The Gold Wrapping Paper
Have you ever regretted the way you disciplined a student.? Here's a good lesson.
The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive old wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060646159702048352003-08-11T16:55:00.000-07:002003-08-11T16:58:44.000-07:00By: John S. Taylor,
Superintendent of Schools for the Lancaster County School District
The Best Dentist
"Absolutely" the Best Dentist
My dentist is great! He sends me reminders so I don't forget checkups. He uses the latest techniques based on research. He never hurts me, and I've got all my teeth, so when I ran into him the other day, I was eager to see if he'd heard about the new state Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060645708895663802003-08-11T16:48:00.000-07:002003-08-11T16:50:35.596-07:00THE TEACHER
This story was passed along to me on the internet. I believe that it has been circulating for a while and I think that the full story may be in the original Chicken Soup for the Soul. I hope you enjoy it and are inspired!
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she toldKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060645435356138632003-08-11T16:43:00.000-07:002003-08-11T16:43:55.283-07:00The Teacher....
This story was passed along to me on the internet. I believe that it has been circulating for a while and I think that the full story may be in the original Chicken Soup for the Soul. I hope you enjoy it and are inspired!
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060269318844989852003-08-07T08:15:00.000-07:002003-08-07T08:15:18.890-07:00Love: The One Creative Force
by Eric Butterworth
A college professor had his sociology class go into the Baltimore slums to get case histories of 200 young bodys. There were asked to write an evaluation of each boy’s future. In every case the students wrote, “He hasn’t got a chance.” Twenty-five years later another sociology professor came across the earlier study. He had his students follow up Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060269283373242642003-08-07T08:14:00.000-07:002003-08-07T08:14:43.400-07:00From Chicken Soup for the Tennage Soul
by Jack Canfield, Mark Hanse, and Kimberly Kirberger
© 1997 Health Communications, Inc.
pp.192-193
SPARKY
For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eight grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra and English. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he did manage Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1060269237222746832003-08-07T08:13:00.000-07:002003-08-07T08:13:57.250-07:00Abraham Lincoln Didn’t Quit - Chicken Soup for the Soul
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
A. Lincoln.
Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln. If you want to learn somebody who didn’t quit, look no further.
Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1059788232001557452003-08-01T18:37:00.000-07:002003-08-01T18:37:11.990-07:00Value Clarification:
VALUE CLARIFICATION EXERCISE
The River Crossing - Tarzan and Jane
One day in darkest Africa a young maiden named Jane sat on the side of a river and was told that the man - Tarzan was sick and needed instant care or else he would die.
She went to the boatman and asked his help to cross the river which was infested with crocadiles. The boatman listened attentively and saidKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1059350088708024732003-07-27T16:54:00.000-07:002003-07-27T16:54:48.600-07:00The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~
You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ~ Hari Dass Baba ~
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. ~ Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1059347744230452892003-07-27T16:15:00.000-07:002003-07-27T16:15:44.270-07:00Children Learn What They Live
If children live with criticism,
they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
they learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
they learn to be shy.
If children live with tolerance,
they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement,
they learn confidence.
If children live with praise,
they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairnessKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1059347530522180452003-07-27T16:12:00.000-07:002003-07-27T16:12:10.596-07:00Education is understanding relationships. George Washington Carver
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,
herein lies the first task of the teacher. Maria Montessori
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins
Excellence Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595102.post-1059347505439985772003-07-27T16:11:00.000-07:002003-07-27T16:11:45.750-07:00I believe a little bit of success lies in everyone! Will you be the one to deny that? Or rather be the one who chooses to be guided by it? I hope you choose as I to do the latter! -- Josh S. Hinds
"Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!" -- Josh S. Hinds
"A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a "doer"! -- Josh S. Hinds
"You are what Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.com