Words of Inspiration and Motivation

One quotes or excerpts from writings or speeches of each of the two people you identified for your Discussion assignment this week.

President Lyndon Johnson

1.)    "The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods." (http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/lyndonbjohnson/a/quotelbj.htm)

2.)    "Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment." (http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/lyndonbjohnson/a/quotelbj.htm)

Lillian Katz

1.)    “We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn’t do later.” (http://www.empoweredbyplay.org/2011/06/words-of-wisdom-from-dr-lilian-katz/comment-page-1/ )

2.)    “please do not confuse excitement with learning,” adding, “You can be addicted to excitement and that is a dangerous thing.” (http://www.empoweredbyplay.org/2011/06/words-of-wisdom-from-dr-lilian-katz/comment-page-1/)

One or two quotes about passion, motivation, and wisdom from the professionals in the media segment you watched during Week 2 of the course

“Most of passion comes from Intrinsict motivation” (Raymond Hernandez MS.Ed)

“I always wanted to be a teacher” (Louise Derman-Sparks)