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Need some words of wisdom about STEM or STEAM? How about some inspiration for aspiring students, scouts, teachers, or parents?
Check-out the following from notable quotables like Greek philosopher, teacher and mathematician, Plato; doctor, dancer and astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison; and, physicist Albert Einstein.
EDUCATION
"Education is the best provision for old age." ~ Aristotle
"Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."
~ Nelson Mandela
"I am still learning." ~ Michelangelo
"All of life is a constant education." ~Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~ William Butler Yeats, poet
LITERACY
"I knew I was truly free when I could read a book." ~ Frederick Douglass
"A book that is shut is just a block." ~ Thomas Fuller
"My best friend is a person who gives me a book I have not read yet." ~ Abraham Lincoln
MENTORING
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
~ Winston Churchill, British prime minister
"Give light and people will find their own way." ~ motto, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
LIFE LESSONS
"Whatever you do, do with all your might." ~ Aesop, ancient Greek philosopher
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship." ~ Louisa May Alcott, author
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
~ Muhammad Ali, boxer
"A goal is a dream with a date on it." ~ Anonymous
"Morality, like art, consists of drawing the line somewhere." ~ Anonymous
"Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones." ~ Anonymous
"Education is the best provision for old age." ~ Aristotle
"Knowledge is power." ~ Francis Bacon
"One of the things I learned the hard way is that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
~ Lucille Ball, comedienne and actress
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~ e.e. cummings, poet
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Skill to do comes of doing." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the change you want to see in this world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, humanitarian
"To love what you do and feel that it matters-- how can anything be more fun than that?"
~ Katherine Graham
"Clear your mind of 'can't.' " ~ Samuel Johnson
"We must do, not just be."
~ Dr. Gloria Scott, academic and first Black president of Girl Scouts USA
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." ~ Margaret Mead, anthropologist
"Every time you show your courage, it grows." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Waste of time is the worst of waste. We can never get those moments back again." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Whatever you take-up, do it with all your might." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
"Give light and people will find their own way." ~ motto, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
"Do a common thing in an uncommon way." ~ Booker T. Washington, educator and orator
"It's better to be 15 minutes early than 5 minutes late." ~ Giles Bragg, Sr., educator
Setting Yourself Up for Success ~ Wanda J. Harding, engineer
STEM & STEAM
"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin... or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity." ~ Dr. Mae Jemison, doctor, dancer and first Black woman in space
GIRL SCOUTING
"Most of the great movements in the world have come from one person...."
~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Girl Scouts taught me to succeed [cookie selling] and to fail [knot tying] and to learn and benefit from both." ~ Carol Bellamy, Former Director of the Peace Corps and of UNICEF
"To get on in the world, to give anything and get anything out of it, each girl has got to do her part." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Many of the greatest movements for the good of people, and those which have influenced the world most, have been the work of one person." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding can be the magic thread that links the youth of the world together." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Every little girl goes to make up some part or parcel of our great nation as a whole." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every other Girl Scout...." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"What you do for your family and your community you do for the world, because the world is, after all, made up of families and communities like yours."
~ Junior Girl Scout Handbook, 1963
"We all have a place at the campfire. It was the Girl Scouts who first taught me that."
~ Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
"I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders."
~ Christine Todd Whitman,
first woman governor of New Jersey and former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
SCIENCE
"Most of the great movements in the world have come from one person...."
~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Be like a proton and stay positive!" ~Unknown
"I have not failed. I've successfully discovered 10,000 things that wont work"
~ Thomas Edison
MATH
"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics" ~ Paul Halmos
"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding." ~ William Paul Thurston
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~Dr. Seuss
INSTRUMENTAL or CHORAL MUSIC
"I would teach children music, physics and philosophy; but, most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning." ~ Plato
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Berthold Auerbach
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." ~ Pat Conroy
"Music is an outburst of the soul." ~ Frederick Delius
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music." ~ Agnes De Mille
"All the sounds of the earth are like music." ~ Oscar Hammerstein II
"When words leave off, music begins." ~ Heinrich Heine
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent." ~ Victor Hugo, author
"The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more." ~ William Wordsworth, poet
"Music, in performance, in a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." ~ Frank Zappa, musician
VISUAL ARTS
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." ~ Aristotle
"Every artist dips his brush in his [or her] own soul, and paints his own nature into his [or her] pictures." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art." ~ Paul Cezanne
"The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder." ~ Glenn Gould
"I draw what I see. I draw what I feel inside my body." ~ Barbara Hepworth
"Morality, like art, consists of drawing the line somewhere." ~ Anonymous
DANCE
"Dance does take being fearless. Fearless in every way. You're not only risking injury, falling, forgetting steps, but putting yourself and personal expression out there for the world to judge. I think it takes a certain type of person to do that."
~ Misty Copeland, ballerina, American Ballet Theatre
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music." ~ Agnes De Mille
Check-out the following from notable quotables like Greek philosopher, teacher and mathematician, Plato; doctor, dancer and astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison; and, physicist Albert Einstein.
EDUCATION
"Education is the best provision for old age." ~ Aristotle
"Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."
~ Nelson Mandela
"I am still learning." ~ Michelangelo
"All of life is a constant education." ~Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~ William Butler Yeats, poet
LITERACY
"I knew I was truly free when I could read a book." ~ Frederick Douglass
"A book that is shut is just a block." ~ Thomas Fuller
"My best friend is a person who gives me a book I have not read yet." ~ Abraham Lincoln
MENTORING
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
~ Winston Churchill, British prime minister
"Give light and people will find their own way." ~ motto, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
LIFE LESSONS
"Whatever you do, do with all your might." ~ Aesop, ancient Greek philosopher
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship." ~ Louisa May Alcott, author
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
~ Muhammad Ali, boxer
"A goal is a dream with a date on it." ~ Anonymous
"Morality, like art, consists of drawing the line somewhere." ~ Anonymous
"Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones." ~ Anonymous
"Education is the best provision for old age." ~ Aristotle
"Knowledge is power." ~ Francis Bacon
"One of the things I learned the hard way is that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
~ Lucille Ball, comedienne and actress
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~ e.e. cummings, poet
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Skill to do comes of doing." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the change you want to see in this world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, humanitarian
"To love what you do and feel that it matters-- how can anything be more fun than that?"
~ Katherine Graham
"Clear your mind of 'can't.' " ~ Samuel Johnson
"We must do, not just be."
~ Dr. Gloria Scott, academic and first Black president of Girl Scouts USA
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." ~ Margaret Mead, anthropologist
"Every time you show your courage, it grows." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Waste of time is the worst of waste. We can never get those moments back again." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Whatever you take-up, do it with all your might." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
"Give light and people will find their own way." ~ motto, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
"Do a common thing in an uncommon way." ~ Booker T. Washington, educator and orator
"It's better to be 15 minutes early than 5 minutes late." ~ Giles Bragg, Sr., educator
Setting Yourself Up for Success ~ Wanda J. Harding, engineer
- Be a young man or young woman of integrity
- Show concern for others
- Be wise and knowledgeable
- Commit to excellence
- Have a reputation for fairness
- Practice humility
- Be creative, respectful, responsible and trustworthy
STEM & STEAM
"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin... or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity." ~ Dr. Mae Jemison, doctor, dancer and first Black woman in space
GIRL SCOUTING
"Most of the great movements in the world have come from one person...."
~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Girl Scouts taught me to succeed [cookie selling] and to fail [knot tying] and to learn and benefit from both." ~ Carol Bellamy, Former Director of the Peace Corps and of UNICEF
"To get on in the world, to give anything and get anything out of it, each girl has got to do her part." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Many of the greatest movements for the good of people, and those which have influenced the world most, have been the work of one person." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding can be the magic thread that links the youth of the world together." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Every little girl goes to make up some part or parcel of our great nation as a whole." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every other Girl Scout...." ~ Juliette Gordon Low
"What you do for your family and your community you do for the world, because the world is, after all, made up of families and communities like yours."
~ Junior Girl Scout Handbook, 1963
"We all have a place at the campfire. It was the Girl Scouts who first taught me that."
~ Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
"I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders."
~ Christine Todd Whitman,
first woman governor of New Jersey and former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
SCIENCE
"Most of the great movements in the world have come from one person...."
~ Juliette Gordon Low
"Be like a proton and stay positive!" ~Unknown
"I have not failed. I've successfully discovered 10,000 things that wont work"
~ Thomas Edison
MATH
"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics" ~ Paul Halmos
"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding." ~ William Paul Thurston
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~Dr. Seuss
INSTRUMENTAL or CHORAL MUSIC
"I would teach children music, physics and philosophy; but, most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning." ~ Plato
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Berthold Auerbach
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." ~ Pat Conroy
"Music is an outburst of the soul." ~ Frederick Delius
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music." ~ Agnes De Mille
"All the sounds of the earth are like music." ~ Oscar Hammerstein II
"When words leave off, music begins." ~ Heinrich Heine
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent." ~ Victor Hugo, author
"The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more." ~ William Wordsworth, poet
"Music, in performance, in a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." ~ Frank Zappa, musician
VISUAL ARTS
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." ~ Aristotle
"Every artist dips his brush in his [or her] own soul, and paints his own nature into his [or her] pictures." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art." ~ Paul Cezanne
"The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder." ~ Glenn Gould
"I draw what I see. I draw what I feel inside my body." ~ Barbara Hepworth
"Morality, like art, consists of drawing the line somewhere." ~ Anonymous
DANCE
"Dance does take being fearless. Fearless in every way. You're not only risking injury, falling, forgetting steps, but putting yourself and personal expression out there for the world to judge. I think it takes a certain type of person to do that."
~ Misty Copeland, ballerina, American Ballet Theatre
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music." ~ Agnes De Mille