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If you cannot explain something simply, you probably do not understand it. - from Tom Whitby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

 Not failure, but low aim is crime - James Russel Lowell

 "only dead fish go with the flow" - don't know

 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.

 "If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn": Ignacio Estrada

 And if they're doing their job, no teacher is the same two years later -- let alone four. Either we keep learning, or we become vegetation. - @TeachPaperless

 Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

 Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein..

 When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest - William Hazlitt

Great vision with mediocre people still produces mediocre results. -Jim Collins, Good to Great

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." ~ Albert Enstein

Nobody can go back & start a new beginning, but anyone can start today & make a new ending." Maria Robinson

The main corporate problem with innovation is not starting the new, but ending the old.- unknown

http://ongoingquest.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/21st-century-education/#NCAIS

"Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor." Proverbs 29:23

3 types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen & those who wonder what happened.- Mary Kay Ash

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." - Dave Barry

"Stop downloading. Start uploading." -Jay Bradner to high school students at graduation

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. Alice Walker

"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." - William Phelps

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence." --Vince Lombardi

"If you work in education you can see miracles every day. You are in the miracle business. And it's a great business." -- Sir Ken Robinson

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly." - Roger Ebert