Turn these quotes into posters

“EDUCATION IS NOT THE FILLING OF A PAIL, BUT RATHER THE LIGHTING OF A FIRE.” - W. B. Yeats

“I NEVER LET SCHOOLING GET IN THE WAY OF MY EDUCATION.” - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

“CHILDREN ARE WORKING AS IF I DID NOT EXIST.” -- Maria Montessori

“THE PRINCIPAL GOAL OF EDUCATION IS TO CREATE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE CAPABLE OF DOING NEW THINGS, NOT SIMPLY OF REPEATING WHAT OTHER GENERATIONS HAVE DONE.” -- Jean Piaget

The single most important thing you could do tomorrow for little to no money is have every student establish a digital portfolio where they collect their best work as evidence of their skills. -- Tony Wagner

“GIVEN THE WIDENING ARRAY OF POSSIBILITIES, THERE’S NO REASON THAT EVERY CHILD MUST MASTER THE SCIENCES, ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, BIOLOGY, OR ANY OF THE REST OF THE STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM THAT HAS BARELY CHANGED IN HALF A CENTURY.” -- Robert Reich

“ABILITY IS WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF DOING. MOTIVATION DETERMINES WHAT YOU DO. ATTITUDE DETERMINES HOW WELL YOU DO IT.” --- Lou Holtz

“NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU HAVE GONE ON A WRONG ROAD, TURN BACK.” TURKISH PROVERB (from The Big Picture: Education is Everyone's Business by Dennis Littky

“TEACHERS WILL MATCH INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING SOLUTIONS ALIGNED WITH THEIR INTERESTS AND ABILITIES. STUDENTS WILL WORK INDEPENDENTLY AND REVISIT LESSONS AS NEEDED. GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS—AS WELL AS BETWEEN LEARNERS—WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT.” -- Bill Ferriter

“I HOPE THAT STUDENTS WILL BE JUDGED NOT BY THEIR PERFORMANCE ON A SINGLE TEST BUT BY THE QUALITY OF THEIR LIVES. I HOPE THAT STUDENTS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO BE CREATIVE, NOT CONFORMING, AND LEARN TO COOPERATE RATHER THAN COMPETE.” Ernest Boyer

The purpose of teaching is to gradually transfer the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student. -- John Gardner

"Here's my radical idea. Allow students who want to be doctors to learn what it's like to be a doctor. They should practice diagnosis, meet fictitious patients and prescribe courses of treatment. If students really need to know something such as how chemicals work in the body and the effects of the drugs they prescribe, we could teach them that instead of teaching them how to balance chemical equations or making them memorize phyla names." - Roger Schank

If students decide they don't like it after all, we could let them experiment with something else. Because students don't really know what their goals are, we could build on their interests and make school meaningful and fun. - Roger Schank