Lisa Willsey:
CLASS OF 2001
International Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 2001
Pomona, CA
Lisa's Story
Lisa's schools include International Polytechnic High School.
Music Lisa likes includes Johnny Cash, The Doors, Flogging Molly. Books Lisa likes include Pride and Prejudice, The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z. Movies Lisa likes include The Graduate, Corpse Bride, Atonement. TV shows Lisa likes include Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Dead Like Me.
One of Lisa's favorite quotes is:""God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots...Expand for more
and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
~Thomas Jefferson
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
~ (Louis) Hector Berlioz
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~ Albert Einstein
Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
~ R.D. Clyde
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~ Thomas Carruthers
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
~ Anne Sullivan".
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