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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Butler Yeates
To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner. - Anonymous
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Elaine Maxwell: My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
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William James: The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
H. H. the Dalai Lama: To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
H.H. the Dalai Lama: The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon: Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -- Michael Jordan
Elizabeth Stone: Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." -- Jim Rohn
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers
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All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. -- John F. Kennedy
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi
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Nelson Mandela: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Patricia Neal: A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. - Anonymous
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein
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September 5, 2010
Writing Contests
Voice for Animals High School Essay
Scholarship Value: $1000
Awards Available: 11
Award Deadline: March 31, 2010
You must currently be attending high school and under 19 years of age on the date the contest opens for entries. The contest is open to all eligible students regardless of your nationality or country of residence.
Scholarship Value: $500-$10 000
Awards Available: 236
Award Deadline: April 26, 2010
Must be in grade 11 or 12; essay between 800 a1600 words; entrants may subit only one essay.
What if? Canada’s Creative Teen Magazine
Full contest information and submission guidelines can be found on their website by using the link above.
Penguin Poetry Contest
Looking ahead: The theme is based on a picture. What does the picture say to you? Is this the hand of? Is this the hand of Time? etc. Deadline: June 15, to be published Fall 2010.
Looking even further ahead: The winter issue contest theme is ‘eating’. Are you eating too much? Does someone you know have an eating disorder? Why do some have more than enough to eat and others have nothing? Send your poem and you could win! Deadline: September 15, 2010, to be published Winter 2010.
St. John’s Kilmarnock School Perspectives Essays Contest
Send in your personal essay, editorial, or opinion peice and you could win cash! first place winner receives $75 and second place winner receives $25. Details: 1500 words or fewer.
Penguin/What If? Pie by Piece
Create a personal experience peice about fitting in to Canadian society. Whether you moved here or where born here, tell us what struggles you might have faced or what it means to be Canadian. Two winning peices will be published in What If?’s, What’s Your Story feature. Deadline: April 1, 2010.
Stone Road Mall Fiction Contest
Looking Ahead: The theme is humour. Everyone loves a good laugh. Laughter is the best medicine. Give our editors a good belly laugh and you could be What If? winner. Deadline: June15, 2010 to be published Fall 2010.
Looking Even Further Ahead: The winter issue contest theme is ‘What if…’. this leaves things preety open fo ryou. What if pigs could fly? What if the sky turned green? What is world peace broke out? Send them your ‘what if’ themed story and you could be a What If? winner. Deadline: September 15, 2010 to be published Winter 2010.
Prizes: $100 gift certificate