Cat Quotes - Page 3

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.