Insanity is doing the same things over and over hoping the results will be different.'

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

' 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

'Change is like dancing with a gorilla. You can't stop because you're tired'. Anon

'Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs, now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but somewhere he feels there is another way, if only he could stop for a moment and think of it.' A A Milne

‘Schools are among the very few institutions that have remained almost entirely unchanged for most of this century.' Judith Aitken 99

‘School should be the best party in town.' Peter Kline

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

'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

'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

‘The guts of teaching is simple - it is the relationship between a teacher and a group of kids.' Howard Wilso

Are we educating students for our past or for their future?’ Anon

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.' Chinese proverb

‘New technology is common, new thinking is rare.' Sir Peter Blake

‘The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner knows. Ascertain this and teach accordingly.’ David Ausubel

‘Our schools are OK if it were 1965!' Stoll and Fink

'Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail'. Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.' Hebrew Proverb

'Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.' Peter Senge