Quotes that relate to history and education

Here are some quotes that I have been utilizing with my students this week as writing prompts in Language Arts.  We are finishing up Sign of the Beaver, so while discussing theme, these provided a way to show how many books have multiple lessons or overriding themes.  The students had a great time explaining/arguing why the quote they chose from the list best fit the book.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

-Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. -Frederick Douglass

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. -Frederick Douglass

 What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.-Samuel Johnson

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  -Albert Einstein

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.  ~G.M. Trevelyan

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  ~Edward Everett

"Who you are is a result of what you have thought." -Buddha

"Do not prepare the path for the child. Prepare the child for the path and he will find his way." - Unknown, Native American

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither .-Benjamin Franklin

AHF Summer Institute 2011

I was incredibly inspired by the summer seminar presenters of both practices and content.  I think that the highlight for me was the ways in which history can be brought to life by putting the STORY back into it.  Using picture books, puppets, songs, and famous quotes are all vehicles for the narrative.  Our school has begun to implement The Seven Habits of Happy Kids, by Sean Covey.  I am now searching for stories and individuals that exemplify and foster these character traits and tie them into the history that I am already teaching.  Yes, my credit card is suffering from my recent Barnes and Noble spree, but I know that the students will reap the benefits of a piece of visual history.

Reflection for 12/4

I'm looking forward to using the livebinder that I have set up to consolidate resources and begin building the Powerpoint on the early colonies.  I am still a bit confused as to how to include Languagte Arts activities within the Powerpoint, but like the idea in general!