It’s a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture –
Aug 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself… Anybody can have ideas — the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
– Mark Twain –
May 27, 2012
Quote of the Day
A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.
– Henry Adams –
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (American Heritage Library)
May 20, 2012
Quote of the Day
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
– Patricia Neal –
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
May 13, 2012
Quote of the Day
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
– Philip Wylie –
Tomorrow! (Beyond Armageddon)
