RSCON5 Author Spotlight Pre-conference Kick Off

On Thursday, July 10th, we got to HangOut with some of our favorite authors! Watch the video interviews below. Click the arrows to go to the next interview. Below the video, find the author's information and where to get the book. Click the author's name to see that specific interview.

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Comment by Maggie Maslowski on July 10, 2014 at 12:20pm

Wow!  That sounds exciting!  Would love to read the book!

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Education Quotes & Commentary

"Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free." - Brene Brown

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming

You Are Not a Failure

"Our children need to be treated as human beings - exquisite, complex and elegant in their diversity." - Lloyd Dennis

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." - Chinese proverb

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting their eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted." - Garrison Keillor

“When you judge you project your shadows onto others. When you love you project your inner light.” - Aine Belton

"There is no recipe for raising children to be successful adults, but parental warmth and affection make more of a difference than any other factor… The main finding… was that 'subjects who had warm mothers or warm fathers were more likely to be rated as higher in social accomplishments 36 years later.' - Radcliffe Study, Quoted in the Boston Globe (4/8/91)

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - G.K. Chesterton

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paolo Friere

"All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - E. F. Shumacher

“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” - Mahatma Gandhi

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