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You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

William Watson Purkey
Love, Inspirational, Life

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

William Watson Purkey
School, Achievement, Attendance

Speak from the heart to be heard.

William Watson Purkey
Heart, Speak, Heard

No act of kindness is wasted.

William Watson Purkey
Kindness, Acts Of Kindness

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

William Watson Purkey
Inspirational, Life, Dance

A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

William Watson Purkey
Education, Jobs, School

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

William Watson Purkey
Waiting, Human Potential, Humans
William Watson Purkey, David B. Strahan (2002). “Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline”, p.11, National Middle School Association

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

William Watson Purkey
Mother, Father, Mistake
William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Watson Purkey
Inspirational, Life, Dance

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