Jill Telford
30 quotes
"They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children"
"It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves."
"An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself."
"I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming."
"Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child."
"Write as though your life depended on it."
"Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly."
"Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it."
"Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real."
"Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo"
"Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!"
"A poem a day keeps the doctor away."
"Forget the American dream...whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing...label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost."
"I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived."
"Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever."
"The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom."
"A few lessons learned as a teacher: I've learned that if you whisper, children will listen...a scribble can be anything (I mean anything!) a monster, a cat, a mom, a dad--our job is to ask to find out and pay attention--usually the most challenging student needs the most challenges to keep them learning and engaged---most of all we must care and the rest handles itself. xo"
"Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it."
"I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money"
"Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last."
"Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living."
"Just do what makes sense."
"We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate."
"Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe."
"The only thing we should scream into the world is love."