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• "1 parent = A fruitcake
   2 parents = A fruitcake and a friend
   3 parents = Troublemakers
   5 parents = "Let’s have a meeting"
   10 parents = "We’d better listen"
   25 parents = "Our dear friends"
   50 parents = A powerful organization"  ~ Author Unknown
• A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. - Lucretia Mott
• 'Ano me whare pungawerewere' 'It is like the house of the spider - linked by a web (of values)'
• A learning organisation sees the environment. as messy, complex and volatile. It picks and chooses it's way attempting to use certain events as catalysts for action, turn constraints into opportunities, and blunt or minimise the impositions that do not make sense...because they know that that is the only way to survive and prosper in a complex environment. - Michael Fullan
• 'A school isn't good enough until it is good enough for our own children. In fact it's not only that it must be good enough for our own children but it must be the dream school we want for our children.'  -   H Levin Stanford Prof of Economics
• A vision without a task is a dream - a task without a vision is drudgery- but a task with vision can change the world'. - Black Elk
• 'After you understand the about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.'  - Alfred North Whitehead
• 'All great truths begin as blasphemies.' - George Bernard Shaw
• 'All life is an experiment.'  - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 'As a child lives today he will live tomorrow' - John Dewy
• As Dr. Fred Volkmar of Yale wrote, the worst possible fate for such a child [with Autism] is to be placed in a program for troublemakers. When that happens, he says, “a perfect victim” is surrounded by “perfect victimizers.”  
• As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life – and upon that depends their happiness. - L. Ron Hubbard
• 'Be in charge of your own destiny or some one else will.'  - Jack Welch CEO
• Between the idea and the reality, Between the notion and the act Falls the shadow'. -  T S Eliot
• 'Because enjoyable activities have clear goals, stable rules, and challenges well matched to skills, there is little opportunity for the self to be threatened.' - Csikszentmihalyi
• 'Briefly, leaders challenge the process because they are risk takers who capitalise on opportunities. As idealists they inspire a shared vision. They... instinctively nurture the talents and energy of colleagues. Leaders enable others to act. ...by serving as coaches and cheerleaders they encourage the heart.'  - Bennis
• Chaos breeds life while order breeds habits' - Henry Adams.
• 'Change is like dancing with a gorilla you can't stop because you're tired'.  - Anon
• 'Changing public education is like punching a pillow or as someone once said like moving a cemetery; after you've done all the work you still have a cemetery.' - Art Costa
• Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how. -  John Holt
• College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller
• ' Communities of the mind are collections of individuals who are bonded together by natural will and to a set of shared ideals and ideals.' - Thomas Sergiovanni
• 'Community building must become the heart of any school improvement effort .- Thomas Sergiovanni
• 'Creative people are uneasy about the status quo; they live on the edge of their competence. They place themselves in situations where they don't know what is going to happen. They accept confusion, uncertainty, and the higher risks of failure, as part of the process'  - David Perkins
• Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice.' - Anon
• 'Education is about helping children, who are capable of self reflection and self organisation, and of enjoying a life where they explore their abundant potential'.  - Caine and Caine
• 'Education is at a turning point' - Howard Gardner
• 'Education for the future has left the harbour and is already on the open seas. Some educators are still clinging to the belief that the ship hasn't left and are invested in business as usual. Some educators are enjoying the freedom of the open seas .... excited about the foreign ports and places they will visit ' -  Renata and Geoffrey Caine
• Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. - Sir William Haley
• 'Following the sun we left the Old World.' - Christopher Columbus
• 'Going to school and getting and education are two different things; and they don't always happen at the same time.'  - Rosa Hill First Native Indian Physician
• 'Half a revolution is worse than none.'  - Anon
• 'How do we recapture the magic and myth of education? ... to enable teachers to believe in their importance...so teachers and the public can rediscovers the hope schools once held?' - Deal and Peterson
• How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. - Alexandre Dumas
• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less "showily". Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences. - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's mentor and friend
• 'I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.'  - Winston Churchill
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -  Mark Twain
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
•  "I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin." ~ Jerry Newport
• 'I set myself as the goal the maximum capacity that people have - I settle for no less. I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.' - Benjamen Zander Conductor Boston
• 'I want you to get excited about who you are, what you have, and what you can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.'  - Virginia Satir
• 'If a thing is not worth doing it is worth doing badly.'  - G K Chesterton
• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails all of us ~ Pearl S. Buck
• 'If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.' -  Ludwig Wittgenstein
• If you know where you want to go, you have a better chance of getting there' -  Anon
• If you plan is for one year, plant rice;
  If you plan is for ten years, plant trees;
  If your plan is for a hundred years,
  Educate children.'  - Confucius
• 'If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.' - Chinese Proverb
• 'Imagine that you would become a better teacher just by virtue of being on a the staff of a particular school - just from that one fact alone.'  - Michael Fullan
• 'In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality' - Peter Senge
• In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.' - Peter Senge
• 'In teaching students to think the emphasis is not on how many answers they know. Rather, the focus is on how well they behave when they don't know.'  - Art Costa
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
• 'It is easier to beg forgiveness than ask for permission.' - Jesuit saying
• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly. - Albert Einstein
• 'It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather... I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanised or dehumanised.'  - Haim Ginott
• 'It is today that we create the world of the future'. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• 'It takes more than one person to make a path.'  - African saying
• 'It isn't the changes that kill you its the transitions'  - William Bridges
• 'It's not the biggest, the brightest, or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest'. - Charles Darwin
• 'It takes a whole village to raise a child.' - African saying
• 'Lead, follow or get out of the way'  - Anon
• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.  You are all learners, doers, teachers. - Richard Bach Illusions
• 'Life is the path you beat while you walk it.'  - Antonio Machado/Poet
• Linus, 'I guess it wrong to be worried about tomorrow, maybe we should only worry about today?'  Charlie Brown, 'No, that's giving up: I'm hoping that yesterday will get better!'
• 'Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.' - Fullan and Hargreaves
• Lucy: 'Charlie Brown on the cruise ship of life which way is your deck chair facing?' Charlie Brown ponders and replies, 'I don't know, I've never been able to get one open'. - Charles Schultz
• Ko te pae tawhiti, whaia kia tata Ko te pae tata, whakamaua kia tina'
  Seek those distant horizons and cherish those you attain
• 'Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide'  - Victor Frankl
• 'Many school are like a collection of sole charges with a shared car park!'  - Anon
• 'Me te huruhuru te manu ka rere'
  'It's the feathers that make the bird'
• My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so kept me out of school. -  Margaret Mead
• My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. - George Bernard Shaw
• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.  By Cicero
• "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." - Dag Hammarskjold / 1905-1961, Statesman and Secretary-General of U.N.
• No other organisation institution faces challenges as radical as those that will transform the school'.  - Peter Drucker
• 'Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.' - Albert Einstein
• 'Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm.'  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 'Our challenge. How do we create organisational coherence...how do we create structures that move with change, that are flexible and adaptive...that enable rather than constrain? How do we resolve the need for personal freedom and autonomy with organisational needs for prediction and control' -  Margaret Wheatley
• 'Our lives are frittered away with detail ...simplify! simplify! simplify!'  - Henry Thoreau
• 'Our schools are OK if were 1965!'  - Stoll and Fink
• 'Our schools are over-managed and under-led.'  - Maurice Gionotti
• 'Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.' - Mark Twain
• 'Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.'  - Myron Tribus
• 'Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school'  - Roland Barth
• 'Route and destination must be discovered through the journey if you wish to travel to new lands... the key to success lies in the creative activity of making new maps.' -  Stacy
• 'Shared values are more important than paper and policies. We need, passion, people, and pride. Leadership not management.' - Lester Levy
• 'School can be a torture or an instrument of inspiration.'  - Higgins and Dolva
• School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children’s conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, ... are prohibited. - Cout Leo Tolstoy
• 'Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective.' -  Fullan and Hargreaves
• 'Schools should be a mirror of a future society.' - Anon
• 'Schools should be about providing a sense of hope for all not achievement for the few.'  - Anon
• 'School should be the best party in town.'  - Peter Kline
• 'Schools are among the very few institutions that have remained almost entirely unchanged for most of this century.'  - Judith Aitken 99
• Simplicity is the new competitive advantage.'  - Bill Jenson
• Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. -  Booker T. Washington
• Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. -  Goethe
• ' Teachers have been virtually shell shocked by barrages of 'semi- changes' that sap the energy while making few substantial differences - and the sounds of imminent changes are almost deafening.' - Joyce and Showers
• 'Teachers must ...regard every imperfection in the pupils comprehension not as a defect..but as a deficit in his or her own instruction, and endeavour to develop ..the ability to discover a new method of teaching.'  - Leo Tolstoy
• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency. - H. L. Mencken
• 'The art of leadership is keeping the herd roughly pointed west!'  - Anon
• 'The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers'. - Roland Barth
• 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it now.'  - Art Costa
• 'The best we educational planners can do is to create the conditions for teachers and students to flourish and get out of their way.'  - Theodore Sizer
• 'The message we want to give to all students, "you are important, you can succeed, and we will not give up on you"'.  - T Patterson ASCD
• 'There can be no significant innovation in education that does not have at its centre the attitudes of the teachers. The beliefs, assumptions, feelings of teachers are the air of the learning environment; they determine the quality of life within it'.  - Postman and Weingartner
• 'This bridge will take you halfway there- the last few steps you will have to take yourself.' - Shel Siverstein
• 'The challenge of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but having new eyes'. - Marcel Proust
• 'The essential purpose is to decide for oneself what is of genuine value in life. And then to find the courage to taker your own thoughts seriously - Albert Einstein
• The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education. - John Updike
• 'The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.'  - Peter Senge
• 'The guts of teaching is simple - it is the relationship between a teacher and a group of kids' - Howard Wilson
• 'The only thing of real importance leaders do is to create and manage cultures.'  - Edgar Schein
• The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done'.  - Jean Piaget
• 'The problem is never to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.'  - De Hock VISA
• 'The rapt enjoyment on a child's face is what enjoyment is all about....unfortunately this natural connection between growth and enjoyment tends to disappear with time.' -  Csikszentmihalyi
• 'The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.' - Bob Dylan
• 'The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.'  - Alfie Kohn
• The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. in Grosvenor Square. - Oscar Wilde
• 'There can be little doubt that. an untapped source of human intelligence and creativity is found among the vast number of individuals in the lower socio-economic levels...the bi- products of this waste are evident.. in unemployment ...in rising crime, delinquency rates, and most important in human despair.'  - Renzulli
• ' There is a road to the heart and it doesn't go through the intellect.'  - G K Chesterton
• ' There is no paint by numbers way to the future'.  - Anon
• 'Thinking deeply about what we are doing leads us to ask better questions, break out of fruitless routines, make unexpected connections and experiment with fresh ideas.' - Ron Brandt
• 'To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.'  - John Dewey
• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ~ E.E. Cummings
• 'To cope with a changing world, ant entity must develop the capacity of shifting and changing - of developing new skills and attitudes; in short, the capability of learning.' - A De Gues, The Living Company
• To much emphasis has been placed on reforming school from the outside through policies and mandates. Too little has been paid to how schools can be shaped from within.' - Roland Barth
• 'Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.' -  David Lange
• 'Too much educational reform and restructuring is destroying teachers confidence, draining their energy, eating up their time and taking away their hope.'  - Fullan and Hargreaves
• 'To raise new questions, new problems, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances'  - Albert Einstein
• 'You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from non-conformity, the ability to turn your back on old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesteryear for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We mist dare to invent the future.' - Thomas Sankara African leader
• 'You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.'  - Peter Senge
• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. - Galileo
• 'You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.' - Galileo
• 'We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of all coasts' - Andre Gide
• "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 'We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.' - Roald Dahl
• 'We need to help the majority unlearn what has been learnt and then help them learn what needs to unfold. Futurists believe that educational and community leaders must be 'disorientated' before they are orientated. That they must unlearn to learn.'  - Anon
• "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 'Where all think alike no-one thinks much.' - Walter Lipman
• 'Whatever you can dream, begin to do it. Boldness has the power and magic in it.' - Goethe
• 'What is worth fighting for out there is ultimately about developing life lines of hope ...for all those desperately seeking a way forward.'  - Fullan and Hargreaves
• What we learn to do, we learn by doing.  -  Thomas Jefferson
• 'Who shall kindle others must himself glow.'  - Italian Proverb
• 'Without question we have had a breakdown in the sense of community. The solution is to restore a sense of community...and doing within the school.' -  James Comer

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