Thank you to the members of the Leave a Legacy Club at Pacific Beach Middle, and their Teacher Advisor, Jill Schenk, for designing the IB Middle Years Programme mural.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
IB AND SERVICE
Thank you to the members of the Leave a Legacy Club at Pacific Beach Middle, and their Teacher Advisor, Jill Schenk, for designing the IB Middle Years Programme mural.
INSPIRED TO SERVE!
Great authors inspire...Here are some inspiring quotes found in three superb Service related resources.
“There’s a radical—and wonderful—new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world.”
– Deborah Meier, educator [from: whatcankidsdo.org]
[FROM Teens with the Courage to Give]
To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not. -Robert F. Kennedy
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. -Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
[FROM Cathryn Berger Kaye’s--The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action]
If you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. -Yiddish Proverb
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell, Author
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs it lifeline.
-Kofe Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
A person’s mind stretched ot a new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wnedell Holmes, Jurist and Writer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, other transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe, Athlete
A pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.
-From To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Poet
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
-Anita Roddick, Activist and Founder of The Body Shop
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing. -Quincy Jones, Musician
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too. -Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux
The Earth is now ours; it is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.
-African Proverb
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
-Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
“There’s a radical—and wonderful—new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world.”
– Deborah Meier, educator [from: whatcankidsdo.org]
[FROM Teens with the Courage to Give]
To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not. -Robert F. Kennedy
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. -Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
[FROM Cathryn Berger Kaye’s--The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action]
If you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. -Yiddish Proverb
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell, Author
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs it lifeline.
-Kofe Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
A person’s mind stretched ot a new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wnedell Holmes, Jurist and Writer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, other transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe, Athlete
A pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.
-From To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Poet
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
-Anita Roddick, Activist and Founder of The Body Shop
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing. -Quincy Jones, Musician
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too. -Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux
The Earth is now ours; it is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.
-African Proverb
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
-Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
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