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Points to Ponder
Excerpt from the 2007 Superintendent's Opening Day Address to Staff

Education is Four Walls with tomorrow inside

The Future belong to those who prepare for it today
                                                                                     Malcolm X

The object of teaching children is to enable them to get along
without their teacher
                                                                                    Elbert Hubband

I CAN is more important than IQ

Change is inevitable expect from a vending machine

Turtles only make progress when they stick out their necks

If at first you don’t succeed try reading the directions

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
                                                                                    John Wooden

When you get to the end of your rope… tie a knot and hang on
                                                                                    Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t confuse motion and progress
A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress
                                                                                    Alfred A. Montapert

We give children two great gifts:   roots and wings

You have to know the rules to know when to break them

Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held it’s ground

It’s frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers
to ask you the questions

Learning is not a spectator sport

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow
they hit the nail on the head
                                                                                    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A ship in port is safe but that’s not what ships are built for
                                                                                    Grace Murray Hopper

Even math teachers cannot figure out how two pound box of
candy can make one gain five pounds

To say you have taught when students haven’t learned is to say
You have sold when no one has brought
Madeline Hunter

Children today are tyrants, they contradict their parents,
gobble their food, tyrannize their teachers
                                                                                    Socrates 470-399 B.C.

You can get all A’s and still flunk life
                                                                                    Walker Perey

If we do not change our directions we are likely to end up where
we are headed
                                                                                    Chinese Proverb                           

The parents are sending us the best kids they have. They aren’t
keeping the good ones at home
                                                                                    Larry Lezotte

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it
Autograph your work with excellence

One’s mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its
original dimensions 
                                                                                    Oliver Wendell Holmes

If your plan is for one year plant rice; if you plan is for ten year plant trees;
if your plan is for a hundred years educate children  
Confucius