Public education quotes are lines about schooling as a public good rather than a private benefit — for a school board meeting, an advocacy piece, a union newsletter, or a civics unit. The one everyone reaches for is Horace Mann’s, from his Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1848: “Education, then,…
The printable lines from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! are the short ones — the book’s long stretches do not fit on a bookmark or a cap. The two that print best are “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose” and “Kid,…
The quote “play is the work of the child” is credited to Maria Montessori almost everywhere it appears. The sentence does not appear in that wording in any of her published books, and nobody circulating it gives a page reference. It is a fair summary of an idea she held, attached to her name by…
Perseverance quotes for students are short lines about continuing after a failure — for a wall, a planner, a note to a student who has just bombed a test, or a slide before exam season. The most solidly sourced one is Frederick Douglass’s: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” from his West…
Parent teacher quotes are short lines about the working relationship between home and school, used on conference invitations, in newsletters, on a classroom door in the first week, and in notes going in both directions. Most of them have no author. That is worth knowing before you print one under a famous name. Below, the…
P and B minimal pairs are word pairs that differ only in the /p/ and /b/ sounds — pat/bat, pin/bin, cap/cab. They isolate the one feature that separates the two consonants, which makes them the standard drill for learners whose first language does not treat /p/ and /b/ as different sounds. Word lists by position…
The most quoted line in Of Mice and Men is George’s, in Chapter 1: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.” Everything else in Steinbeck’s 1937 novella works off that sentence — the dream, the friendship, and the ending…
These new school year quotes for teachers are sorted by where they are going: a welcome message to a class, a card to a colleague in the staffroom, a first-day board display, or a newsletter to families. Most are card lines written to be used freely; where a line is a genuine quotation, it is…
Maya Angelou spent the last thirty-two years of her life as a university professor, so her quotes about education come from inside the job rather than from a distance. The lines below are taken from her books, her interviews and her teaching career, and each one names where it comes from. They are sorted by…
These math teacher appreciation quotes are sorted by use: short lines for a card or gift tag, playful math-themed lines, and a few attributed quotes about mathematics you can pair with a thank-you. Most are card lines written to be used freely; where a line is a genuine quotation, it is credited. Pick one that…