“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
Chinese proverb
“Territory acknowledgements are one small part of disrupting and dismantling colonial structures. You may also want to get in touch with local Indigenous nations or organizations to build relationships and support their work.”
Allison Jones, 2020
https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/
“We need to prepare our students for their future, not our present or our past.”
“Five students something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results!”
“Learning is doing.”
John Dewey, Father of progressive education – 1859-1952
“I could never think of education without love and that is why I think I am an educator, first of all because I feel love.”
Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy – 1921-1997
“Truth is the basics for JUSTICE in our society and the BUILDING BLOCKS to our society.” (2)
“ACCEPT people. To get rid of all the STEREOTYPES and look at people equally. Every single person has the right to be HAPPY for who they are without people JUDGING them.” (8)
Truth and Reconciliation, What is it about? – A discussion booklet for the classroom, 2016
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
“Through the inspiration oand the appreciation of my gandmother, because she was the one that used to tell me stories. And when I started to see the animals, the bird and the fish, I would see them in a very different kind of way. … It was was hard for me to describe so in order for me to try to describe it I would illistrate it, I would draw it on the ground or on the snobank, or sometimes I would light my stick and draw it in the dark.”
Roy Thomas, Indigenous Artist – Muffins For Granny, 2007
“It is vital to protect Indigenous knowledge, not only for the sake of Indigenous peoples in their own environments, but also to raise general awareness of the vitality of Indigenous knowledge and its dynamic capacity to help solve contemporary problems. Most schools and universities focus attention on fragmented cultural practices that make Aboriginal peoples visible only in their artistry, performance, and archival and museum work, and as such perpetuate notions of Indigenous peoples as historical and exotic, not contemporary and global with a knowledge system that has value for all.”
Marie Battiste, Nourishing the Learning spirit, 2010
https://urcourses.uregina.ca/mod/resource/view.php?id=1238952
“When a student is understood holistically, a teacher does not only invite the student, but the student and all the student’s relations, into the classroom space. This means inviting who the student is (rather than who the teacher would like the student to be) which in turn means getting to know who the student is in a holistic way (rather than making assumptions about who the student is based on dominant, racialized categorizations and stereotypes).”
FAtima Pirbhai-Illich and Fran Martin,
A relational approach to decolonizing educaction: working with the concepts of invitation and hospitality, 2019
“Inclusion is an attitude, a belief and an approach that supports a commitment to welcome, accept, value and educate every individual as a contributing member of the school community.”
SASKATCHEWAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Inclusive education, 2017
“If you are a leader and believe in the theory, use it! First, make sure everyone has eaten well. Then, make them feel safe and help them belong to a group. Once they feel they belong they are ready to stand out and excel.”
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
“Life as a teacher begins the day you realize that you are always a learner.”
Robert John Meehan
“To teach is to learn twice.”
Joseph Joubert
“Everybody gets a chance.”
Bob Johner, 2020