Wise Nuggets for Classroom Use

A Collection of Nuggets to Impart Understanding About Life
For Classroom Use
 

"You can always hitch a ride on the road of life, but you'll see more if you walk." - - - Pete Bowler

It means that there is always an easy way around something, but if you take the effort to not take that easy way, you might get more out of it.
Suggested by Pete Bowler
"Life is a long series of important decisions that must all be made with insufficient data." - - -
Russ Andrews
Read an essay that explains it.
(It is used in a lesson plan in the 7th grade sequence.)

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes." - - - Walt Whitman.

We are small but not insignificant. Life has meaning and purpose, and what we make of ourselves here on earth will stand for all time.
Suggested by Rhonda Blanton

"If you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right."---Henry Ford

Attitude is everything.
Suggested by Sandy Kennedy

This is very close to one I coined myself:

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are correct." - - -
A Dr. Laura listener

These are self fulfilling prophesies. Our brains tend to make whichever we choose to think come true! If you think you can, your brain will find a way to do it. If you think you can't, your brain will find all kinds of reasons to not even try! See lesson plan aphg5-14 or essay Self-Expectations.

 

 
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