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A Touch of Class

by Carol VanderHeyden

118 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-1024; ISBN 1-55395-309-6; US$19.99, C$23.95, EUR15.60, £10.80

A Touch of Class is divided into 3 sections designed for educators of all grade levels. Section 1: A Wealth of Wisdom for Teachers (includes topics like discipline and motivation). Section 2: The Making of a Great Nation (includes historical quotes and documents). Section 3 Earth's Wonders and Resources (includes quotes related to scientific topics).

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About the Book

"We always have time for the things we put first." "Most people get ahead during the time that others waste." "Successful people try, practice, and wander down blind alleys. They pay their dues but don't give up." These are just a few of the thousands of quotes I have collected and used to inspire and challenge hundreds of students and educators during my thirty-year, teaching, career. I have compiled these quotes along with historical quotes and documents into a comprehensive book entitiled; A Touch of Class. This book is meant to be a tool and an asset to any classroom instructor. I envision this book as a resource for classroom banners and wall charts.
In an era of cultural changes and a need or quest for teachers to find tools to enhance character building in our young people, I believe using meaningful quotes to teach life-lessons was met with personal success in my classroom. It is my desire to inspire other teachers to use quotes as part of their daily, routine, classroom, experience. It will help alleviate behavioral problems in the classroom and aid our children's growth toward good citizenship. Many interesting, spontaneous, and enlightening discussions may follow as students share their interpretations. The art of deciphering quotes and writing interpretations is a classy way to start your day, hence the title; A Touch of Class.
A Touch of Class is divided into three sections designed for educators of all grade levels. Section 1: A Wealth of Wisdom for Teachers (Includes topics like discipline and motivation)
Section 2: The Making of a Great Nation (Includes historical quotes and documents)
Section 3: Earth's Wonders and Resources (Includes quotes related to scientific topics)
This treasure of quotes is designed to be a continuous source of strength, encouragement, joy, and enrichment through your teaching career.

About the Author

Born in the state of New York, a product of the baby boomer generation, Carol VanderHeyden, was raised in a large family in western Pennsylvania. She attended college and graduate school in Indiana where she met her husband. VanderHeyden raised two children while pursuing a teaching career in Michigan. She recently retired and lives in central Florida.
VanderHeyden belonged to the NEA, MEA, and EEA, serving in various capacities as an officer in her local and state teaching associations. She has received awards in teaching, conservation, and photography. She belongs to the Stonegate Women's Golf Association and the Green Thumbs.
Among her interests are traveling, having traveled extensivily in all fifty states and a dozen foreign countries, reading and journaling. Her hobbies inlcude photography, stamp collecting, gardening, and flower arranging. Watercolor, ceramics, and calligraphy are among her recent interests because she believes one is never too old to learn something new.
A Touch of Class is her first published work. In many ways, VanderHeyden's collection of quotes is the essence of her teaching and learning experiences in public education.

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CONTENTS

Part One:
A Wealth of Wisdom for Teachers

Chapter 1
Teachers/Educators

Chapter 2
Education/Learning

Chapter 3
Schools/Students/Parents

Chapter 4
Management/Control/Discipline

Chapter 5
Potential/Motivation/Inspiration

Chapter 6
Wisdom/Knowledge

Chapter 7
Careers/Jobs/Work

Part Two:
The Making of a Great Nation

Chapter 1
America/U.S.A.

Chapter 2
Democracy/Politics/Government

Chapter 3
Liberty/Freedom

Chapter 4
Citizen/Patriot

Chapter 5
Religious Origins/Roots

Chapter 6
War/Peace

Chapter 7
Historical Documents/Records

Part Three:
Earth's Wonders and Resources

Chapter 1
Animal Kingdom

Chapter 2
Earth's Resources

Chapter 3
Nature's Gifts

Chapter 4
Plant Kingdom

Chapter 5
Seasons of the Year

Chapter 6
Astronomy

Chapter 7
Water Resources

Chapter 8
Weather Lore - Meteorology

INTRODUCTION

This book is a collection of quotations and documents, which I have gathered and used in my classroom over the duration of my thirty-year teaching career. In many ways they are the essence of my teaching and learning experiences in public education.

My retirement from the classroom has brought me the freedom to pursue another dream. I have found great satisfaction and excitement in writing. If my writing achieves its purpose then I have embarked on a second career. It is my desire that this book will be a great resource for teachers.

I used quotes as a cognitive and memorable part of my student's daily educational experience. Asking the questions; what does this quote mean or what is the author trying to communicate with us, will help students to analysis the quote and put it into their own words. Many interesting, spontaneous and enlightening discussions may follow as students share their interpretations. The art of deciphering quotes and writing interpretations is a classy way to start your day, hence the title; A Touch of Class.

The discipline of using meaningful quotes to teach life-lessons in my classroom was met with personal success. Therefore, it is my wish to inspire other teachers to use quotes as a practical part of their classroom experience. Through the implementation of quotes, it is my hope that you and your students will gain insight into the mystery of human behavior and pursue the enrichment of character-building within the class setting.

I have compiled this collection of quotes and documents into three sections: A Wealth of Wisdom for Teachers, The Making of a Great Nation, and Earth's Wonders and Resources. These sections are designed for teachers of all grade levels. In Parts Two and Three, topics related to history and science are emphasized respectively. This treasure of quotes is designed to be a continuous source of strength, encouragement, joy, and enrichment throughout your teaching career.

The Author's Wish for You May you get all your wishes but one; So you always have something to strive for.

SAMPLE EXCERPTS

Teachers Give Gifts
To the difficult student, Patience
To the quiet student, Assurance
To all students, A Good Example
To parents, Time to Listen
To administrators, Creativity
To the community, Service
To yourself, Respect

Teachers plant the seeds of learning.

Everyday is a new beginning; every
morn is the world made new.

Teachers broadcast facts every day
Not knowing how many receivers they
reach.

A farmer can plow under his mistakes
But a teacher's mistakes grow up and
become members of the school board.

Goals are like stars; they may not be
reached, but they can always be a
guide.

All work and little pay means you're a
teacher.

Praise is habit forming.

A teacher must strive to teach ideas as
well as facts.

Many children have photographic
minds; they need the teacher's help to
develop them.

A sleeping fox catches no chickens.

Teachers who put their foot down will
find their students reluctant to step on
their toes. Criticism: the thing most of us think is
more blessed to give than to receive.

Sometimes you can make a very
effective statement simply by saying
nothing.

Experience is what helps you to
recognize a mistake when you've made
it again.

What students want to learn is as
important as what educators want to
teach.

Tact is the art of making a point without
making an enemy.

Kindness is the overflowing of one's self
into the lives of others.

Give credit where credit is due.

We protest against unjust criticism, but
we accept unearned applause.

Today's assignment: Help fight truth
decay.

The first fifteen seconds of a lecture will
make or break it.

The most valuable gift a teacher can
give his students is a good example.

Teaching isn't a bowl of cherries, it's a
bunch of raisins - raisin' curiosity, raisin'
awareness, and raisin' grades.

Most educators agree that students
learn exactly as much in school as they
are compelled to learn.

An education is what you get from
reading the fine print; a learning
experience is what you get when you
don't.

By failing to prepare; you are preparing
to fail.

Wise men learn by other men's
mistakes; fools by their own.

The greatest ability is dependability.
Curt Bergwall

The best cure for a sluggish mind is to
disturb its routine.
William H. Danford

Learning from experience is like taking
the test before the lesson has been
presented.

Education does not end upon
graduation. It ends when you do.

An educated person has been taught
how to think rather than what to think.

A shallow thinker never leaves an
impression.

The goal of education should be to turn
the mind into a living fountain, not a
reservoir.

To understand the value of a year, ask
a student who has failed.

It is less painful to learn in our youth
than it is to be ignorant in our old age.

To some, education is a tax supported
childcare service. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the
negative.
Johnny Mercer

ere is no point in making mistakes if
you don't learn anything from them.

You know it's time for a geography
lesson when the students claim they
cannot find the English Channel on TV.

Some students drink at the fountain of
knowledge. Others just gargle.

Some minds are like concrete;
thoroughly mixed and permanently set.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty
soon overtakes him.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon

The seeds of knowledge are planted in
the classroom and are cultivated by
experience.

Sometimes we think we have an open
mind when it really has been closed for
repairs.

One must come out of one's house to
begin learning.
African Proverb

If you have knowledge, let others light
their candles by it.

Think all you speak, but speak not all
you think.

It is the mind that rules the body.
Sojourner Truth

Building self- esteem: There are
extraordinary qualities in ordinary
people.

A guide to building self- esteem: Praise
loudly; blame softly.

There is no easy road to success.
I am responsible for myself: I alone
choose how I think, feel and act.
C. L. Charles

Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me
be brave in the attempt.
Use what talents you have. The woods
would be very silent if no birds sang
there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

He who truly believes something is
willing to act upon it.

It is never too late to be what you might
have been.
George Eliot

You see things; and you say, "Why? "
But I dream things that never were; and
I say, "Why not? "
George Bernard Shaw

Our greatest glory consists not in never
failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Don't be afraid of the space between
your dreams and reality. If you can
dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

People do not lack strength; they lack
will. I leave this rule for others, when I am
dead. Be always sure you are right,
then go ahead.
Davy rockett

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed
his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

The poison of pessimism creates an
atmosphere of wholesale negativism
where nothing but the bad side of
everything is emphasized.

Ambition and drive keep the successful
person focused on what's ahead not on
what has happened.

The quitter never wins.
The winner never quits.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in
despair.

The grass is greener on the other side,
but it is just as hard to mow.

A smooth sea never makes a skillful
mariner.

There are two ways of spreading light;
to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Within your heart keep one still, secret
spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll

Work is not the cause -
Rest is not the cure.

Success is not arriving at the summit of
a mountain as a final destination. It is a
continuing upward spiral of progress.

Success is harnessing your heart to a
task you love to do.

Success is a ladder that cannot be
climbed with your hands in your
pockets.

Success is having the courage to meet
failure without being defeated. It is
refusing to let present loss interfere with
your long-range goal.

Success is best measured by how far
you've come with the talents you've
been given.

Behind every successful man stands a
proud wife and a surprised mother-in-
law.
Brooks Hays

He has achieved success who has lived
well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley

The true measure of success is not what
you have, but what you can do without.

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is liking what you get.

When ask what makes a person
successful? Eighty percent listed
enthusiasm as the most important
quality.

Excellence is never an accident.

Oh, the difference between nearly right
and exactly right. Praise in public.
Criticize in private.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.
John Wooden

The harder you work, the luckier you
get.
Gary Player

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an
all-time thing. You don't win once in a
while, you don't do things right once in a
while, you do them right all the time.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is
losing.
Vince Lombardi

Pride makes us do things well. But it is
love that makes us do them to
perfection.
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show
themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the One Great Scorer comes to
write against your name, He marks, not
that you won or lost, but how you played
the game.
Grantland Rice

What Went Wrong?
This is the story of four people:
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and
Nobody. There was an important job to
be done and Everybody was sure that
Somebody would do it. Anybody could
have done it but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry because it was
Everybody's job. Everybody thought
that Somebody would do it. But Nobody
asked Anybody. It ended up that the job
wasn't done and Everybody blamed
Everybody, when actually Nobody
asked Anybody.

Plymouth Rock Inscription:
This spot marks the final resting-place
of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower. In
weariness and hunger and in cold,
fighting the wilderness and burying their
dead in common graves that the Indians
should not know how many had
perished, they here laid the foundations
of a state in which all men for countless
ages should have liberty to worship God
in their own way. All ye who pass by
and see this stone remember, and
dedicate yourselves anew to the
resolution that you will not rest until this
lofty ideal shall have been realized
throughout the earth.

The Mayflower Compact,
November 11, 1620
In the Name of God, Amen. We, whose
names are underwritten, the Loyal
Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord
King James, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, etc. Having
undertaken for the Glory of God, and
Advancement of the Christian Faith,
and the Honour of our King and
Country, a Voyage to plant the first
Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia;
Do by these Presents, solemnly and
mutually, in the Presence of God and
one another, covenant and combine
ourselves together into a civil Body
Politick, for our better Ordering and
Preservation, and Furtherance of the
Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof
do enact, constitute, and frame, such
just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts,
Constitutions, and Officers, from time to
time, as shall be thought most meet and
convenient for the general Good of the
Colony; unto which we promise all due
Submission and Obedience. In Witness
whereof we have hereunto subscribed
our names at Cape- Cod the eleventh of
November, in the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord King James, of
England, France, and Ireland, the
eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fifty-
fourth, Anno Domini, 1620.
(To which forty-one signatures were
added)
The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America -
July 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit
of Happiness. . . . That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed. . . .
We, Therefore, the Representatives of
the United States of America, in
General Congress, Assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the Name, and by Authority of the
good People of these Colonies,
solemnly publish and declare, That
these United Colonies are, and of Right
ought to be, Free And Independent
States; that they are Absolved from All
Allegiance to the British Crown, and that
all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain, is and
ought to be totally dissolved; and that as
Free and Independent States, they have
full Power to levy War, conclude Peace,
contract Alliances, establish Commerce,
and to do all other Acts and Things
which Independent States may of right
do. And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives,
our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
(To which 56 men signed their names -
One, John Hancock, signed it large
enough so King George could read it
without his spectacles on.)

The Star-Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key - 1814
(It became America's National Anthem
by an act of Congress in 1931.)
O! say, can you see, by the dawn's
early light, What so proudly we hailed at
the twilight's last gleaming: Whose
broad stripes and bright stars through
the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we
watched were so gallantly streaming,
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs
bursting in air, Gave proof through the
night that our flag was still there;
Chorus:
O! say, does that Star-spangled Banner
still wave O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave?
O! thus be it ever when free men shall
stand Between their loved homes and
the foe's desolation; Bless'd with victory
and peace, may our Heaven-rescued
land Praise the Power that hath made
and preserved us a nation. Then
conquer we must, when our cause it is
just, And this be our motto - "In God is
our trust!"
Chorus:
And the Star-spangled Banner in
triumph shall wave O'er the land of the
free and the home of the brave.

America
By Rev. Samuel F. Smith
My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of
liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my
fathers died; Land of the pilgrim's pride;
From ev'ry mountain side Let freedom
ring.
My native country, thee, Land of the
noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy
rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed
hills; My heart with rapture thrills, Like
that above.
Let music swell the breeze, And ring
from all the trees Sweet freedom's
song; Let mortal tongues awake, Let all
that breathe partake; Let rocks their
silence break, The sound prolong.
Our father's God!to thee, Author of
liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our
land be bright With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might, Great God our
King. America the Beautiful
By Katharine Lee Bates
(Inspiration from Pike's Peak - 1893)
O beautiful for spacious skies, For
amber waves of grain, For purple
mountains majesties Above the fruited
plain! America! America! God shed
His grace on thee - And crown thy good
with brotherhood From sea to shining
sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose
stern, impassion'd stress, - A
thoroughfare for freedom beat Across
the wilderness: America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw, Confirm thy
soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In
liberating strife, - Who more than self
their country loved, And mercy more
than life! America! America! May God
thy gold refine - Till all success be
nobleness And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream That sees
beyond the years Thine alabaster cities
gleam Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His
grace on thee - And crown thy good with
brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Credo
By Wendell L. Wilkie
I believe in America because in it we
are free - free to choose our
government, to speak our minds, to
observe our different religions; Because
we are generous with our freedom - we
share our rights with those who disagree
with us; Because we hate no people and
covet no people's land; Because we are
blessed with a natural and varied
abundance; Because we set no limit to
a man's achievement: in mine, factory,
field, or service in business or the arts,
an able man, regardless of class or
creed, can realize his ambition;
Because we have great dreams - and
because we have the opportunity to
make those dreams come true.

Surely there is something in the
unruffled calm of nature that over awes
our little anxieties and doubts; the sight
of the deep blue sky, and the clustering
stars above, seem to impart a quiet to
the mind.
Jonathan Edwards

Every sunrise is a message from God,
and every sunset His signature.
W. A. Ward

The voice of nature loudly cries, and
many a message from the skies, that
something in us never dies.
R. Burns

A dream and a star shine best from
afar!
Joan Walsh Anglund

Keep your face to the sunshine and you
cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,
No higher than the soul is high.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star!
P. T. Barnum

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The same sun that melts the wax
hardens the clay.

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My heart leaps up when I behold a
rainbow in the sky.
William Wordsworth The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his
hands.
The Bible - Psalm 19: 1 (NIV)

We all live under the same sky, but we
don't have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

Even a small star shines in the
darkness.
Finnish Proverb

Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn,
and quickly come as the Evening Star,
bringing again in secret her whom thou
takest away.
Meleager - 95 B

More worship the rising than the setting
sun.
Pompey

There is nothing more musical than a
sunset.
Nat Shapero

The more we learn about the wonders of
our universe, the more clearly we are
going to perceive the hand of God.
Frank Borman

The moon like a flower in heaven's high
bower, with silent delight, sits and
smiles on the night.
William Blake

The man who has seen the rising moon
break out of the clouds at midnight has
been present like an archangel at the
creation of light and of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There they stand, the innumerable
stars, shining in order like a living hymn,
written in light.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

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