Professional Quotes

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

James Baldwin

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Apocryphal

“School is not at all like billiards. When you play billiards you push the ball with a certain force and it hits the table and bounces off; there’s a definite way the ball will go, depending on force and direction. Children are not at all like this, predictable. But sometimes schools function as if the were; these are schools with no joy.”

Loris Malaguzzi

“Play is not a break from learning, but a pathway toward learning.”

Marilou Hyson