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Quotes About Empowerment

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
~ Ivan Illich
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
~ John F. Kennedy
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
~ Andy Hargreaves
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.
~ Katharine Graham
Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
~ Toni Morrison
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.
~ Dave Ramsey
We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning
~ Elliott Masie
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.
~ John Bytheway
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
~ Starhawk
I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.
~ Shirley MacLaine
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
~ Audre Lorde
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
~ Stephen Neal
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
~ Andy Hargreaves
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
~ Andy Hargreaves
By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
~ Shakti Gawain
If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
~ Henry Ward Beecher