S.W. Collins Quotes
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.
If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.