Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ~Ruth E. Renkel
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Thoughts for the Teaching Artist is devoted to an ongoing exploration of the role of the arts in education. I believe that the arts are an integral, essential part of every person's education. Arts education develops 21st Century Learning Skills, supports all core subjects, creates empathy & builds bridges, and helps develop voice & vision.
The views expressed in Thoughts for the Teaching Artist are mine alone and do not represent the views of my employer or any other persons or organization.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Friday, October 28, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Traditional thinking is all about what is. Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.~ Edward de Bono
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Daily Thoughts
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid .~Audre Lorde
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Daily Thoughts
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ~George Sheehan
Monday, October 24, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. ~Ray Kroc
Friday, October 21, 2011
Daily Thoughts
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ~Johnny Cash
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Daily Thoughts
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. ~M. Scott Peck
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Daily Thoughts
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. ~Lana Turner
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Daily Thoughts
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.~ Marilynne Robinson
Monday, October 17, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.~ Carolyn Hax
Friday, October 14, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~Goethe
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Daily Thoughts
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. ~George Balanchine
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ~John Steinbeck
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Daily Thoughts
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.~ Helen Hayes
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Daily Thoughts
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ~Horace