Education Quote by Heather Choate Davis Download Open image ““Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?”” — Heather Choate Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Faith Parenting Social-commentary Vocation
“All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.” — Michael Carr Copy Share Image
“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.” — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
“WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.” — Nescio Copy Share Image
“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.” — Da Chen Copy Share Image
“A lot of gifted kids are angels who are on this earth with responsibilities to help others.” — Linda Silverman Copy Share Image
“Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the only ones… — Mynah K Copy Share Image
“I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright,… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to screw up… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then,… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image