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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.”