William Watson Purkey Quotes:

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

Topics: School, Achievement, Attendance, Academic Achievement

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

source: - William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

Topics: Mother, Mistake, Father, Good Mother

Speak from the heart to be heard.

Topics: Heart, Speak, Heard, Speak From The Heart

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Topics: Heaven, Listening, Earth, Interesting Life, Just Living Life

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

Topics: Hurt, Like You, Just Live Your Life, Just Living Life, Life Is Beautiful

Love like you'll never be hurt..

Topics: Hurt, Like You

A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

Topics: Education, Jobs, School, Most Important Person, Desire To Learn

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

source: - William Watson Purkey, David B. Strahan (2002). “Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline”, p.11, National Middle School Association

Topics: Waiting, Human Potential, Humans

No act of kindness is wasted.

Topics: Kindness, Acts Of Kindness