A young people’s strengths and capabilities are supported as necessary by resources in their natural and community networks

If schools are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary. Students will then become equipped with those qualities which are prerequisite for citizens living in a healthy democratic society. Albert Einstein

A school can create a coherent environment, a climate, more potent than any single influence … so potent that for at least six hours a day it can override almost everything else in the lives of children. Ron Edmond

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Your strengths become your vehicle for solving problems. If you start building on strengths, you start to get clues as to how to solve your problems.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James M. Barrie

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can. – John Wesley

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin