I also have been nominated for
the Disney American Teacher Awards.

Thomas Edison (inventor of night baseball)

Albert Einstein (inventor of the curve and knuckle ball)

William Shakespeare (2b or not 2b, led the league in doubles)

Babe Ruth (pitcher and outfielder)

Michael Jordan (couldn't hit so he went back to an easier sport).


The Class
To boldly learn what no man (or woman) has learned before...
To remember our past in order to build our future...
I try to learn something new every day.

SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES

"Color-blind people always see silver linings in gray clouds...
that's all we see"
Mr. K
"We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus
character--that is the goal of true education."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(1968)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill (1952)

"It's not enough to teach students to surf the 'Net, we must teach them to
make waves."
Ben Shneiderman (August, 1999)

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein, physicist

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain
always a child."
Cicero, Roman philosopher

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso on Computers

"A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives."
Jackie Robinson

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"All sunshine makes a desert."
Arab proverb

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon

"Inspire children."
Henry Aaron

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
Yogi Berra

"I can see while the rest of the world wears bi-focals"
Butch Cassidy

"Take a sad song and make it better"
The Beatles

"Triumph is a little umpf with a lot of try"
Mr. K

"Fences mean nothing to those who can fly."
Anonymous

"In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have
to do the steering."
Dr. Benjamin Spock

"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
M.K. Gandhi, Indian religious leader and philosopher, (1930)

"If I come back as anything--I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the
command key is my second choice."
Nicki Giovanni, poet

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a
leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution
comes to you and you don't know how or why."
Albert Einstein, physicist

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
Babe Ruth

"Success just doesn't happen, you've got to make it happen."
Joe McCarthy