Educational Quotes
One way to add interest and spice or to help carry a message or overall theme throughout a portfolio is to include quotes relating to aspects of teaching and learning.  Here are only a few from the great wealth of quotes that relate to education.  Be sure to give credit to the author by including their name with the quote.
 

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.  Autograph your work with excellence."  Unknown (1)

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."  Willa A. Foster (1)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."  Ronald E. Osborn

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."  Mary McLeod Bethune (2)

"My hear is singing for joy this morning.  A miracle has happened!  The light of understanding has sone upon my little pupil's mild, and behold, all things are changed."  Anne Sullivan (2)

"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth.  The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word.  That word is "education."  Lyndon B. Johnson (2)

"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."  Robert Maynard Hutchins (2)

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."  Albert Einstein (2)

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver (2)

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student."  Marva Collins (2)

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."  Albert Einstein (3)

"What scupture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."  Joseph Addison (3)

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry B. Adams (3)

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."  William Butler Yeats (3)
 
 

(1)  Great Quotations.  Great Quotations, Inc., Lombard, Illinois, 1984.

(2)  Great Quotes from Great Teachers.  Great Quotations Publishing Company, Glendale
        Heights, Illinois, 1996.

(3)  A Teacher Affects Eternity.  Smallwood and Stewart, Inc., Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City,
      1995.
 
 
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