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Modelling Habits of Mind

Imitation and emulation are the most basic forms of learning. Teachers, parents, and administrators realize the importance of their own display of desirable Habits of Mind in the presence of learners. In the day-to-day events and when problems arise in schools, classrooms, and homes, children must see the significant adults employing the Habits of Mind. Without this consistency, there is likely to be a credibility gap. As Ralph Waldo Emerson is often quoted as saying, "What you do speaks so loudly, they can't hear what you say."

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.
Steven Covey
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
Let the beauty you love be what you do.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Learning though imitation is fundamental to many species, including humans. As we become adults, we have a unique advantage: we can choose whom to imitate. We can also choose new models to replace the ones we outgrow.
Michael J. Gelb
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes Jr., author
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
If your walking isn’t your preaching, there is no point in walking any where to preach.
St. Francis of Assisi
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles but a good deal about their acts.
Horace Mann
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.
Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity
If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
The way you behave is the way you'll be judged.
Anonymous
Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.
Alice walker
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Elias L, Magoon
.... If real success is to attend the effort to bring a man to a definite position, one must first of all take the pains to find him where he is and begin there. This is the secret of the heart of helping others. Anyone who has not mastered this is himself deluded when he proposes to help others. In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. If, however, I am disposed to plume myself on my greater understanding, it is because I am vain or proud, so that at bottom, instead of benefiting him, I want to be admired. But all true effort to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands... For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it....
Soren Kierkegaard
See the good... BE the good.
Peggy Moretti
If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas Kempis
Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful-you acted on it.
Dan Zadra, CEO Compendium, Inc.
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats, Author
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann von Goethe
The smartest thing that a person can do is to persistently think the thoughts that are consistent with the kind of person he or she would like to be.
Brian Tracy, Author
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
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