SAYINGS XXXV
"The greatest part of virtue lies in avoiding the opportunity for vice."
(St. Augustine)
"Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success."
(Unknown)
"If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak"
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation; but children have the equal right to develop their talent, their ability, and their motivation."
(John F. Kennedy) [From the signature of Cherie McCollough]
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
(Albert Einstein)
"That's what math is - wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination."
(Paul Lockhart) [From the signature of David Hovorka]
"The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."
(Ira Gershwin, American lyricist)
"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
(Helen Keller)
"I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person."
(Martha Stewart, American businesswoman and TV personality)
"It is playing for children and an emergency for the butterfly."
(Unknown) [From the signature of David Wagner]
"The television is to news as the bumper sticker is to philosophy."
(Jack Monahan)
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
(Albert Einstein)
"He who hesitates probably shouldn't be on the bomb disposal squad."
(Jack Monahan)
"Our greatest weariness comes from work undone."
(Eric Hoffer, American writer and philosopher)
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
(Helen Keller)
"I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it ... so I said "Implants?"
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
(William Arthur Ward) [From an article by Sarah Henchey]
"Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences ... . Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy."
(Roger Bacon [Opus Majus, bk. 1, ch. 4 - <http://bit.ly/dzjbWv>])
"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
(George Eliot, British writer)
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
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On being a good teacher:
"You are selling. That's part of what it is to be a good teacher. To be a good teacher, you have to be part stand-up comic, part door-to-door salesman, part expert, part counselor. Do what feels natural. Be yourself. Are your students liking it? Is it working for you?"
"Yes." They liked it all right, maybe a bit too much. "And I think they're learning."
"Then forget about the rest of it. Just have fun. That's the best reason for doing it."
Stendhal wrote: "With me it is a matter of almost instinctive belief that when any ... man speaks, he lies-and most especially when he writes." I still like to tell a good story. But doesn't everybody who loves teaching? How else are you going to liven up the classroom when students' eyes are always turning to their iPhones or laptops?
( Clancy Martin, philosopher and chair of the philosophy department at the U. of Missouri at Kansas City)
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--Jerry P. Becker
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