"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." 
~Thomas Carruthers

"Everyone is a genius.  But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
~ Albert Einstein

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
~ Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
~ Aristotle

In the news: 

If You're Not Failing, You're Not Learning (teaching persistence)
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
The Backlask Against Screentime At School
AP classes worthwhile for college preparation  
Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Award Speech
 In Honor of Teachers
In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away